Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Commonplace Book

'"...I'm afraid you take life rather seriously, don't you?"

"Why certainly," the young man answered with gravity. "Isn't that the way to take it?"

"Oh, bless you, no. It's too grim a business. The proper spirit to take it in is one of unseemly levity."'

from The Prodigal Father, a piece in Mademoiselle Miss and other stories by Henry Harland

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