It is probably possible to divide the human race into butter-eaters and non-butter-eaters. I’m not sure what the division really says about us (and no wise man should go around looking for more divisions than we already have), but I am sure where my sympathies lie. I find cold butter simply irresistible.
-Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, 151.
Commonplace-book. Formerly Book of common places. orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement. First usage recorded: 1578. - OED
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
Feeling Thin
Why I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
-J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 41.
-J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 41.
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