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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilisation; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), British economist, critic. repr. In Literary Studies, vol. 2 (1878). "The Waverley Novels," (1858).

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