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Fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Rosalind and I have always been planning to do a great many pleasant things when we had more time.

During the busy days when we barely found opportunity to speak to each other we were always thinking of the better days when we should be able to sit hours together with no knock at the door and no imperative summons from the kitchen.

Some man of sufficient eminence to give his words currency ought to define life as a series of interruptions.

There are a good many valuable and inspiring things which can only be done when one is in the mood, and to secure a mood is not always an easy matter; there are moods which are as coy as the most high-spirited woman, and must be wooed with as much patience and tact: and when the illusive prize is gained, one holds it by the frailest tenure.