“For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.”
Section 11
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
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