I can repay hospitality only by strict attention to the humble, arduous process of making myself agreeable. When I go up to dress for dinner I have always a strong impulse to go to bed and sleep off my fatigue ; and it is only by exerting all my will-power that 1 can array myself for the final labours : to wit, making ' myself agreeable to some man or woman for a minute or two before dinner, to two women during dinner, to men after dinner, then again to women in the drawing-room and then once more to men in the smoking-room. It is a dog’s life. But one has to have suffered before one gets the full savour out of joy. And I do not grumble at the price I have to pay for the sensation of basking at length in solitude and the glow of my own fireside.—Max Beerbohm.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2202, 4 July 1910, Page 7
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