Josef Pieper (1904–1997) German philosopher
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, pp. 50–51
“Like all weddings it had left the strange feeling of futility, the slight sense of depression that comes to English people who have tried, from their strong sense of tradition, to be festive and sentimental and in high spirits too early in the day. The frame of mind supposed to be appropriate to an afternoon wedding can only be genuinely experienced by an Englishman at two o'clock in the morning.”
Source: Love's Shadow (1908), Chapter xxiv.
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