... we English people delight in a moral - not a moral to be deduced or inferred, but a nice, rounded, little moral, in all the starch of set sentences, and placed just at the end. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

... we English people delight in a moral - not a moral to be deduced or inferred, but a nice, rounded, little moral, in all the starch of set sentences, and placed just at the end.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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