Content to the mind, says the great
Halifax, is as moss to a tree; it
binds up so as to stop its growth.
And Hobbes complained of Chatsworth
that though there was a good library
there, which the Earl of Devonshire
stocked by his instructions, never-
theless the want of learned conver-
sation was a very great inconven- ience.
Upon which Aubrey comments sadly,
'Methinks in the country, in long
time, for want of good conversation,
one's understanding (wit, invention)
grows mouldy'.
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Lord Dacre of Glanton
The Wartime Journals
July, 1945
op. cit.
i le smoking
Dries van Noten
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