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Tesch seems to be someone who mistakes rudeness for intellectual rigor.
“Babbitt looked up irritably from the comic strips in the Evening Advocate. They composed his favorite literature and art, these illustrated chronicles in which Mr. Mutt hit Mr. Jeff with a rotten egg, and Mother corrected Father's vulgarisms by means of a rolling-pin. With the solemn face of a devotee, breathing heavily through his open mouth, he plodded nightly through every picture, and during the rite he detested interruptions.”
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“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― An Ideal Husband
― An Ideal Husband
“I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.”
― A Civil Campaign
― A Civil Campaign
“During the late Victorian period, one English woman in Hampshire who suffered from fits reportedly ate an entire New Testament in an attempt to cure her illness, putting each page in the middle of a sandwich.”
― Books: A Living History
― Books: A Living History
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