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THERE IS A TENDENCY WHICH, BEING HUMAN, IS LIKE MOST HUMAN THINGS NOT UNPARDONABLE, BUT LIKE M A N Y HUMAN THINGS R A T H E R IRRITATING - TO TRY TO MAKE OUT THAT EVERYTHING IS SOMETHING ELSE. George Saintsbury, (1845-1933) in The PEACE of THE AUGUSTANS A Survey of Eighteenth Century Literature as an enfilade of Rest and Refreshment Rooms.