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Sunday, October 22, 2017
One of Life's Pleasures
Dean Inge, quoted by Geoffrey Madan, Notebooks: A Selection, edd. J.A. Gere and John Sparrow (1981; rpt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 135:
Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.