Always Be Civil To The Girls, You

Oh Dear... It Really Is Rather Disillusioning. When One's Friends Marry For Money They Are Wretched, When They Marry For Love It Is Worse. What Is The Proper Thing To Marry For, I Should Like To Know?

One's Emotions Are Intensified In Paris—one Can Be More Happy And Also More Unhappy Here Than In Any Other Place. But It Is Always A Positive Source Of Joy To Live Here, And There Is Nobody So Miserable As A Parisian In Exile From His Town.

When The Loo Paper Gets Thicker And The Writing Paper Thinner, It's Always A Bad Sign, At Home.

The Test Of A Cook Is How She Boils An Egg. My Boiled Eggs Are Fantastic, Fabulous. Sometimes As Hard As A 100 Carat Diamond, Or Again Soft As A Feather Bed, Or Running Like A Cooling Stream, They Can Also Burst Like Fireworks From Their Shells And Take On The Look And Rubbery Texture Of A Baby Octopus. Never A Dull Egg, With Me.

One Thing About Tourists Is That It Is Very Easy To Get Away From Them. Like Ants They Follow A Trail And A Few Yards Each Side Of That Trail There Are None.