Sunday, July 17, 2011

Daily Dose

From The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn Waugh, edited by Charlotte Mosley

OF CHILDREN

"Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure is momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable."

From a letter of Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford, dated 3 May, 1954, Piers Court, Stinchcombe

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