Showing posts with label aristocracy. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 12, 2020

Daily Dose


From The British Essayists, with Prefaces Biographical, Historical, and Critical, by Robert Lynam

SHOULD

"Should he be introduced into the society of nobles and legislators, he will still find dogs and horses, with all their concomitant sports and amusements, the favourite topics of discourse. Literature would be voted dulness; morality, preaching; philosophy, nonsense; and religion, hypocrisy."

From Volume 23, Knox's Essays, # 102, On the Present State of Conversation

Friday, November 29, 2019

Daily Dose


From Madame de Pompadour, by Nancy Mitford

SHE

"She longed for a reason to get rid of her cousin."

From Chapter 14, The Affair of Choiseul-Romanet