My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
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| Eleanor Farjeon, Writer (1881) |
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| Stephen Hadley, Politician (1947) |
| Robert Jackson, Statesman (1892) |
| Brooks Adams, Historian (1927) |
| Frederick Lewis Allen, Editor (1954) |
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