More quotes by Alfred Austin
Hospitality should be accidental, spontaneous, and impulsive, not pre-arranged and calculated.
Women are more frequently charming than men, because they are less self-conscious.
Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.
Public opinion is no more than this,
What people think that other people think.
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