Advice For Combatting Low Spirits
Sydney Smith's Advice For Combatting Low Spirits: Teresa Nielsen Hayden starts an open thread with excerpts from this 1820 letter to Lady Georgiana Morpeth.
Smith gives Morpeth a list of suggestions for how to work to improve her state of mind, from the immediate--"Make the room where you commonly sit, gay and pleasant"--to the existential--"Don’t expect too much from human life—a sorry business at the best."
Smith gives Morpeth a list of suggestions for how to work to improve her state of mind, from the immediate--"Make the room where you commonly sit, gay and pleasant"--to the existential--"Don’t expect too much from human life—a sorry business at the best."
Marilee Scott 2:22 AM
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