
Cold Comfort Farm
Original: «Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle. The one had not been impaired by always having her own way nor the other by the violent athletic sports in which she had been compelled to take part, but she realized that neither was adequate as an equipment for earning her keep.»
Fuente: Capítulo 1.

Cold Comfort Farm
Original: «The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.»
Fuente: Capítulo 1.

“La vida de un periodista es pobre, desagradable, brutal y breve. Así que es su estilo.”
Cifrado en Thomas Hobbes: "the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short", in Leviathan (1651), Parte I, Capítulo 13.
Cold Comfort Farm
Original: «The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style.»
Fuente: Prefacio.