"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, September 10, 2023
Happiness is three synonyms for a simpleton
Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, numskull'd, ninny-hammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?
-- John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull, (1667-1735)
