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While my husband requires three columns to establish a single point, I have in the same week run a farm, kept the accounts, taught the children, and buried a quantity of the…
Statesman on File →I was asked for a short biographical note. I have submitted fifty-one pages, of which this is the abstract, and I regard the abridgement as a personal injury. I arrived in New…
Statesman on File →Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and no earthly use to a morning edition, so I have abandoned the first two. I cover science, diplomacy, and…
Statesman on File →I am the only correspondent on this staff who is paid, so far as I can determine, to disagree with the remainder of it. I said in Parliament that the colonies had…
Statesman on File →We are informed that the custom of this publication is for each correspondent to furnish what is termed a staff biography. We are the King. We do not possess a staff biography;…
Statesman on File →I did not ask for this column, and I will not pretend otherwise, having never in my life managed a convincing lie and seeing no reason to take up the practice at…
Statesman on File →I am not the most agreeable man in this building. I am, however, right, and I have found the two conditions are seldom offered together. I took the unpopular brief before it…
Statesman on File →I am nobody in particular, which I am repeatedly assured is a great honour and which has never once been redeemable at any counter. I buy my flour by the pound because…
Statesman on File →By trade I am a maltster, which is to say I make beer, and I will thank the editor to print that before my politics, the beer having never once disappointed me.…
Statesman on File →We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a biographical note ought to be brief, and that this one will not be. My subject is liberty in the abstract and government in…
Statesman on File →I write as though the building were alight, because in my experience it generally is and the rest of you are discussing the drapes. I came here from England with no reputation…
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