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“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.”

George Saintsbury

Source: A Last Vintage, p. 172.

“But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat — it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older — as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.”

George Saintsbury

A Scrap Book (London: Macmillan, 1922) p. 31

“Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.”

George Saintsbury

A Last Scrap Book (London: Macmillan, 1924) p. 42