I Think Housework Is Far More Tiring And Frightening Than Hunting Is, No Comparison, And Yet After Hunting We Had Eggs For Tea And Were Made To Rest For Hours, But After Housework People Expect One To Go On Just As If Nothing Special Had Happened.

-Nancy Mitford

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I Think Housework Is Far More Tiring

Nancy Mitford

I Think Housework Is Far More Tiring And Frightening Than Hunting Is, No Comparison, And Yet After Hunting We Had Eggs For Tea And Were Made To Rest For Hours, But After Housework People Expect One To Go On Just As If Nothing Special Had Happened.

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Thinking

Hunting

Eggs

Twice In Her Life She Had Mistaken Something Else For It; It Was Like Seeing Somebody In The Street Who You Think Is A Friend, You Whistle And Wave And Run After Him, And It Is Not Only Not The Friend, But Not Even Very Like Him. A Few Minutes Later The Real Friend Appears In View, And Then You Can't Imagine How You Ever Mistook That Other Person For Him. Linda Was Now Looking Upon The Authentic Face Of Love, And She Knew It, But It Frightened Her. That It Should Come So Casually, So Much By A Series Of Accidents, Was Frightening.

Running

Real

Thinking