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QUOTH a wise man to a youth...
Last Saturday I was vegetating in St. Goar Library, on the Rhine. Now, owing to the numerous Puritanical cliques in this charming city, the conseil municipal (corresponding to what you call the Library Council) has come to the conclusion that, after going to church, a man ought never to play billiards or cards, or drink anything stronger than H2O, enlivened by a little soda-water, alleging that nothing is more detrimental to orthodox principles than having the mind occupied on the Sabbath. So they close the library and close the cafes and close the shops, thus obliging you to seek...
...interrupted I, "I am a married man...
...understand, then," said I, "that anything, from Rabelais to Scarron, may be read and conned eight hours of the day, within these walls, by any lad of fifteen, and yet not read, outside, by any man under eighty. Here are your books; take them back to their alcoves to be purified by the dust of ages and dog-eared by interested youth. Well, can you give me Praed's poems...
SCENE, a game of clumps. "Is it in a work of fiction?" "Yes." "Written at the beginning of the Christian era?" "Yes." ABSENT-MINDED MAN (eagerly). "Is it in the Bible?" (Fact...