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There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offenses, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere. ↗
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Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is. ↗
…nothing remained but loneliness and grief… ↗
#little-women #loneliness #louisa-may-alcott #louisa-may-alcott
…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. ↗
…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart. ↗
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. ↗
...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”... ↗
