Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, & what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, & wha...t language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way;Mall this comes of Authorship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything li...ke order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am greatly pleased with your account of Fanny; I found her in the summer just as you describe, almost another sister, M& ... />could not have supposed that a niece would ever have been so much to me. She is quite after one's own heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Younger sisters are almost different beings from elder ones, but thank God it is quite and unaffectedly without repining or envy t...hat I see my elder sister gad about and visit, etc.--when I rest at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any cr...edit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »