Fortune is the least capricious of deities, and arranges things on the just and rigid system that no one shall be very happy for very long.
Evelyn Waugh, When The Going Was Good
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
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