“The colour I think of little moment; and am of opinion with our friend Foote, respecting his negro friend, that a good dog, like a good candidate, cannot be of a bad colour.”

—  Peter Beckford

Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting (1781), Letter 3

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