Quote of the Day
“The purpose of drinking wine is not intoxication, Rumpole.”
Erskine-Brown looked as pain as a prelate who is told that his congregation only came to church because of the central heating.
“The point is to get in touch with one of the major influences of western civilization, to taste sunlight trapped in a bottle and to remember some stony slope in Tuscany or by the Gironde.”
(John Mortimer: The Collected Stories of Rumpole)
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