It's the midst of exams and being busy, which means that I will be posting a lot of quotations that I come across in my reading, researching, and studying. Putting quotes up is not unique to exam-time, but rather a lovely side effect. I'm not doing anything interesting to friends and family back home at the moment, but I thought I'd share a bit of what's going on inside my head.
'"From our inns," returned the gentleman, "a stranger might imagine that we were a nation of poets; machines at least containing poetry, which the notion of a journey emptied of their contents: is it from the vanity of being thought geniuses, or a mere mechanical imitation of the custom of others, that we are tempted to scrawl rhime upon such places?"'
--Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling
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