Showing posts with label gossip. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Daily Dose

From Crewe Train, by Rose Macaulay

GOSSIP

"This idiotic interest in other people's business, this passion to be for ever fingering it; yes, certainly it amounted to a disease."

From Chapter XI, Day and Night, 3

Friday, January 25, 2013

Daily Dose

From The Life by Himself, by Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon

SUCH

"Such kind of people are never without some particular stories of persons whom they desire to deprave..."

From The Royal Brothers

Friday, January 11, 2013

Daily Dose

AH YET

"Ah yet, we cannot be kind to each other here for an hour;
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame;
However we brave it out, we men are a little breed."

From Maud, V