What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased ...to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloo...m is gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whats...oever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, rem...ained thirty-five for years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him..., will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »