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Tag: William Morris

Posted on September 4, 2013

Mid-Week Quote: Houses and Books

Old books

“To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle.”

William Morris

Quotes and Reviews

Sideburns, for example, are named after the sideburn-wearing General Ambrose Burnside.
Customer: give me burnsides!
Barber: (lights blowtorch)
Customer: wait, what?
—The Ambition of a Potato

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