“People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.” PeopleGivingDoeMemoriesExistenceQuietDinnerExcitementDullRecurringUnemotionalPalimpsestRemote Places Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.” DoeStatesCitiesMaterialsProudQuietConversationUnionsSimplicityProsperityIntellectIntimacyElsewhereDelightfulGrandeurProminence Author:M. E. W. Sherwood