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Friday, December 02, 2011
Summum Bonum
Anthony Trollope, from one of a series of essays on London tradesmen, published in 1880 in the Pall Mall Gazette, quoted by Richard Mullen, Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in His World (London: Duckworth, 1990; rpt. Savannah: Frederic C. Beil, 1992), p. 632: