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   Am in Market Harborough.Where ought I to be?

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
Attributed. Chesterton remarks in his  Autobiography (1936), ch.16,'I cannot remember whether this story is true; but it is not unlikely, or, I think, unreasonable.'

öShe marked thee there, 662 Stretched on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.341^4.

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