If you have only just enough money to buy a bed, a chair, a table and a soup-plate, you should buy none of these squalid objects; you should immediately pay the first instalment on a Steinway grand. Why? Because the aforesaid squalidities are essentials, and essentials have a peculiar way, somehow or other, of providing for themselves. ‘Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves’… People who look after pennies deserve all they get. All they get is more pennies.
– ~Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols
Posted on Sunday June 20th
