Snobs

by Julian Fellowes

one can face up early on to what one really wants in life, then there is every chance of avoiding the seemingly inevitable modern disease of mid-life crisis.

au fond,

hatch, match and despatch – that is to say, when she is born, when she marries and when she dies.

that

be sure to marry a man who was polite and kind, rudeness and cruelty being the only two qualities that absolutely poison life.’

one of the freedoms of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.