Tuesday 27 December 2011

Ongar: An extract from the Commonplace Book of Edward Reeve c1860


The qualities in a man for which a woman generally gives the preference, are ardour, manliness of person, politeness, confidence, a dazzling knowledge of the world, and elegant flattery.


Conversation is a game for two, and that one equal half-part should consist in listening, and not in mere angling for questions on which to hang story after story.

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