LL wives are bad,—yet two blest hours they give,
When first they wed, and when they cease to live.
Palladas, trans. by J. H. Merivale.
ES, my dear curate," said the Professor, "what I am enjoying is the champagne that you drink, and what you are enjoying is the champagne that I drink. This is altruism; this is benevolence; this is the sublime outcome of enlightened modern thought. The pleasures of the table, in themselves, are low and beastly ones; but if we each of us are only glad because the others are enjoying them, they become holy and glorious beyond description."
"They do," cried the curate rapturously, "indeed they do. I will drink another bottle for your sake."
W. H. Mallock, The New Paul and Virginia.
OME d—d people have come in, and I must stop. By d—d, I mean deuced.
Lamb to Wordsworth.
