"Severely criticised by their political opponents for neglecting their official duties, it was said that they had no thought but to live out their days in rural retirement."
Friday, November 24, 2017
Everyone's out shopping today, but I'm happy to be at home instead
"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."
-- Samuel Johnson: Rambler #68 (November 10, 1750)