“(Query here becomes unavoidable: Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialise?)” OptimismIntroversion Book:Diary of a Provincial Lady Source: Diary of a Provincial Lady
“There is no unemployment in the Soviet Union; everybody can, and indeed must, work; and so far as I know, everybody does. As a kind of offset to this universal activity, everybody—when not working—sits about and waits.” WaitingWorkIndustryEmploymentUnemploymentSoviet UnionSoviet Russia Book:The Provincial Lady in Russia Source: The Provincial Lady in Russia
“Am struck by paradoxical thought that youth is by no means the happiest time of life, but that most of the rest of life is tinged by regret for its passing, and wonder what old age will feel like, in this respect. (Shall no doubt discover very shortly.)” AgeYouth Book:The Provincial Lady in Wartime Source: The Provincial Lady in Wartime