“[P]eople who canalise their lives and prearrange their enjoyments lose much of the enchantment which attends the guiding beneficence of chance.”

— Alfred Austin

Source: Lamia's Winter-Quarters (1898), p. 96.

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British writer and poet 1835–1913

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