Sunday, November 29, 2015

Commonplace Book

'It became a question with him now, whether Wit and Ambition may dwell together harmoniously in a young man: whether they will not give such manifestation of their social habits as two robins shut in a cage will do: of which pretty birds one will presently be discovered with a slightly ruffled bosom amid the feathers of his defunct associate.'

from Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith (Chapter XXVI)

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