The Pursuit of Love (Radlett and Montdore #1)

by Nancy Mitford

We had never learnt to dance, and, for some reason, we had supposed it to be a thing which everybody could do quite easily and naturally. I think Linda realized there and then what it took me years to learn, that the behaviour of civilized man really has nothing to do with nature, that all is artificiality and art more or less perfected.

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.