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Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Four Necessary Things
William Hazlitt, A Farewell to Essay-Writing (London Weekly Review, March 29, 1828):
Food, warmth, sleep, and a book; these are all I at present ask -- the ultima Thule of my wandering desires.