It Was A Book To Kill Time

As To The Family, I Have Never Understood How That Fits In With The Other Ideals -- Or, Indeed, Why It Should Be An Ideal At All.

One Should, I Think, Always Give Children Money, For They Will Spend It For Themselves Far More Profitably Than We Can Ever Spend It For Them.

It Was A Book To Kill Time For Those Who Liked It Better Dead.

Women Have One Great Advantage Over Men. It Is Commonly Thought That If They Marry They Have Done Enough, And Need Career No Further. If A Man Marries, On The Other Hand, Public Opinion Is All Against Him If He Takes This View.

Every Year, In The Deep Midwinter, There Descends Upon This World A Terrible Fortnight. ... Every Shop Is A Choked Mass Of Humanity ... Nerves Are Jangled And Frayed, Purses Emptied To No Purposes, All Amusements And All Occupations Suspended In Favor Of Frightful Businesses With Brown Paper, String, Letters, Cards, Stamps, And Crammed Post Offices. This Period Is Doubtless A Foretaste Of Whatever Purgatory Lies In Store For Human Creatures.