“Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Stanza 39.
Beppo (1818)
“The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.”
Source: The Uncoupling
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