“Good little girls always show marked deference for the aged. You ought never to ‘sass’ old people unless they ‘sass’ you first.”
—from Advice to Little Girls, Mark Twain’s lovely children’s book, illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky.
“Good little girls always show marked deference for the aged. You ought never to ‘sass’ old people unless they ‘sass’ you first.”
—from Advice to Little Girls, Mark Twain’s lovely children’s book, illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky.
“So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?”
― Hilary Mantel, Experiment in Love
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