Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Daily Dose


From The British Essayists; with Prefaces Biographical, Historical, and Critical, Volume 17, by the Rev. Robert Lynam

NOTION

"It is a vulgar notion, and worthy of the vulgar, for it is both false and absurd, that passionate people are the best-natured people in the world."

From The World, #196. Thursday, September 30, 1756, by Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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