Commonplace Book

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Aix-en-Provence? The Neopolitan coast? No, we’re in Snowdonia at the fantasy village of Portmeirion.[/caption]

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‘My cook gets £80 a year and gives me a kipper. Sullivan’s cook gets £500 a year and gives him the same thing in French.’
—W.S.Gilbert

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‘The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.’
—Alduous Huxley

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‘As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.’
— Ellsworth Huntington

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‘The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.’
—Thomas Love Peacock