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A Late Discoverer
Jests Home
A VERY dull man, after dinner, had been boring the company with a long
discourse, in the course of which he had given utterance to ethical
views as old as the hills, as though he had just discovered them. When
he had done repeating his truisms, Charles Lamb gravely said: Then,
sir, you are actually prepared to maintain that a thief is not
altogether a moral man.
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