‘They will never agree’, said the 19th century wit, the Reverend Sidney Smith, when he saw two women shouting at each other from houses on opposite sides of an Edinburgh street, ‘they are arguing from different premises’.
Quoted in Chapter 8, Cultural Theory, Climate Change and Clumsiness by Michael Thompson. (H-t. RSA blog.)
Country diary 1925: Evicted badgers find a new home
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*30 March 1925*: Their old stronghold is now occupied by a vixen fox, the
partner of an old dog that hounds have often hunted
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