Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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