Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich
Category: Author:Stephen Leacock
A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe,The Wizard of Finance,The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson
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Category: Author:Stephen Leacock
A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe,The Wizard of Finance,The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson
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The younger generation of Birge’s Corners insisted that nothing exciting had happened since Abigail Clergy’s love affair in 1867, and the older generation retorted that Thurley Precore, who must have been born in Arcadia, was bound to create excitement.
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A fair slope of land in buttercup-time, just when May, the capricious, melts into tender June—a slope of fertile pasture within two miles of the city of Eborsham, whose cathedral towers rise tall in the blue dim distance—a wealth of hedgerow flowers on every side, and all the air full of their faint sweet perfume, mixed with the odorou...
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Arcadians, metaphysicians, and all adorers of the past are cursing every day and every hour the modern mania of comparing human things to living beings and call for anathemas against this absurd and sacrilegious profanation of the man-God. Comparative anatomy, physiology and psychology are for these gentlemen nothing but different form...
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