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Mr. Howard Begbie, the gentleman who dusted the mirrors of Downing Street so anonymously yet so effectively, once wrote down a biting phrase. "Our curse is not original sin," he declared in The Glass of Fashion, "but aboriginal stupidity!"

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 6 : The Profane and The Profound > # 49