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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Stacy Aumonier was a British writer and stage performer, most highly regarded for his short stories. Between 1913 and 1928, he wrote more than 85 stories, 6 novels, a volume of character studies, and a volume of 15 essays.
It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.
One lives everything down in time.
Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.
Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.
Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.
If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.
The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.