"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."
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Happiness is a sound egg
This is also evidenced in eggs, whereof the sound ones sink, and such as are addled swim; as do also those that are termed hypanemiae, or wind-eggs.
-- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Of Swimming, and Floating
