The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.Elizabeth Drew
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.
Elizabeth Drew
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
Elizabeth Drew
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
Elizabeth Drew
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
Elizabeth Drew
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew
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