Quotes from Living Alone — Stella Benson
1892–1933 England
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A committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.
Living Alone (1919)
The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
Living Alone (1919)
What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? ... The real Love knows her neighbour face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.
Living Alone (1919)