MsHedgehog

I have just been re-reading Les Liaisons Dangereuses . An inscription on the title page tells me that I bought it twenty years ago. Publishe...

Published five hundred years ago this year, while the early modern world was being born: XXIII - How Flatterers Should Be Avoided ... t...

I am a quick, demanding, inattentive reader. When a piece of English prose leaves me sighing with delight, I sometimes like to type it out t...

“You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of Spring.” A quotation , whatever its flaws, that has always appealed to me.

“... As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain tha...

Not the angle of the edges of a stone - that's bevel - but this: “To the economist embezzlement is the most interesting of crimes. Alone...