Sublime

You have to meet people where they are.

Such was Lydgate’s plan of his future: to do good small work for Middlemarch, and great work for the world. He was certainly a happy fellow at this time: to be seven-and-twenty, without any fixed vices, with a generous resolution that his action should be beneficent, and with ideas in his brain that made life interesting quite apart from the cultus

Without Beecher, true, there’d be no circus; but without Felix, there’d be no show.

It had all been arranged by advert and telephone: the Fredrikson family were offering a holiday home to a child for the summer out of the goodness of their hearts, and for a small fee, of course. Axel and Hanna had discussed it thoroughly – all the big-city children in need of fresh air, woods, water, and good food. They had said all the things peo

László Papp. Je lui dois mes années de légèreté et de vie gourmande. Je n’ai jamais su si l’histoire d’Ochoa était vraie. S’il avait vraiment refusé la place ou si Papp avait inventé ce conte pour rabattre chez moi d’éventuelles prétentions salariales et m’engager, en tant que second choix, à un salaire dont je m’apercevrais plus tard qu’il était,

Si une dame se rendait au vestiaire, il s’empressait d’aller lui chercher son manteau ; il avait pour chaque enfant un regard amical ou un mot de plaisanterie ; il était à la fois sociable et discret ; bref, il paraissait un de ces êtres privilégiés, à qui le sentiment d’être agréable aux autres par un visage souriant et un charme juvénile donne un