“You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.” WayClothesAskingBuyingCompanionRelevantYou ChooseDropping Author:Michael Bassey
“The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.” WayUsedThreeHouseSocialProcessCommunityGenerationsLondonFamiliarUsed To BeLandscapeBuyingColonyAssimilationIdentifyingRestoringThree Generations Author:Peter York