Who is Sophie? what is she...
Sophie had very advanced and decided views as to the distribution of money: it was a pleasing and fortunate circumstance that she also had the money.
Sophie had very advanced and decided views as to the distribution of money: it was a pleasing and fortunate circumstance that she also had the money.
When she inveighed eloquently against the evils of
capitalism at drawing-room meetings and Fabian conferences she was conscious of
a comfortable feeling that the system, with all its inequalities and
iniquities, would probably last her time. It is one of the consolations of
middle-aged reformers that the good they inculcate must live after them if it
is to live at all.
H.H. Munro (Saki) - The Byzantine Omelette
5 comments:
Yes! Excellent quotation!
it was a pleasing and fortunate circumstance that she also had the money
Indeed.
Sackers and James - things don't change much do they?
You cannot make an omelette without doing at least some incidental damage to eggs.
Demetrius - we could call it culinary collateral damage.
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