The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there’s no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse. - Hilaire Belloc

The Llama is a wooly sort of fleecy hairy goat,
With an indolent expression and an undulating throat
Like an unsuccessful literary man.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone.

We are what we are today mainly because no one of those heresies finally overset our ancestral religion, but we are also what we are because each of them profoundly affected our fathers for generations, each heresy left behind its traces, and one of them, the great Mohammedan movement, remains to this day in dogmatic force and preponderant over a great fraction of territory which was once wholly ours.