Sunday, July 04, 2004
Domestic Tranquillity
Charles Lamb, A Quaker's Meeting:
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What is so pleasant as to be reading a book through a long winter evening, with a friend sitting by -- say a wife -- he, or she, too (if that be probable), reading another, without interruption, or oral communication? -- can there be no sympathy without the gabble of words?
