it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.

Jilly Cooper

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Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all aft... by Jilly Cooper

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

coffee food retirement

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

women marriage kindness

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. by Jilly Cooper

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

long-grass grass long

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

different simple secret

People who can write a book usually do. by Jilly Cooper

People who can write a book usually do.

writing book people

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

family-and-friends tomorrow goes-on

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

doubt diaries forget

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

training work jobs

If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.

new-year party years

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

ready grandmother persons

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and livi... by Jilly Cooper

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

class-system mind people

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook. by Jilly Cooper

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.

cooks men thinking

People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

girl choices people

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody... by Jilly Cooper

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

happy-person very-happy persons

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyon... by Jilly Cooper

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.

dust eye blow

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

workshops england praying

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

office should-have work

The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

reading work running

A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.

significant sound today

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office. by Jilly Cooper

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

terrible office pressure