FROM THE PORTABLE CURMUDGEON
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. John Ciardi. The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. Nietzsche. It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him. John Barth. The upper class never allows itself to be uncomfortable, except on a yacht. Paul Fussell. One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. J. B. Priestly. Go into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. Samuel Johnson.
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