“Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.”
Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen
“Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.”
“I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.”
“To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.”