The Idiot

Excerpt from The Idiot

Because they are the sort Of views to which suffocation is the most appropriate end, snapped the School Master. Any man who asserts, as you have asserted, that life on a canal-boat has its advantages, ought to go further, and prove his sincerity by liv ing on one.

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