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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
One Good Thing in the World
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), Nightmare Abbey, chapter I (on Mr. Glowry):
Disappointed both in love and in friendship, and looking upon human learning as vanity, he had come to a conclusion that there was but one good thing in the world, videlicet, a good dinner...