Daily Dose

From Berlin Stories, edited by Philip Hensher

OUR

"Our previous governess was fat as a frog. She always seemed to be about to burst. She was English. She's still English today, of course, but the moment she took liberties, she was no longer our concern."

From The Little Berliner, by Robert Walser, translated by Harriet Watts

Daily Dose

From Satires and Personal Writings, by Jonathan Swift

NEVER

"Never wear socks when you wait at meals, on account of your own health as well as them who sit at table; because as most ladies like the smell of young men's toes, so it is a sovereign remedy against the vapours."

From Directions to Servants in General