"About a donkey's taste why need we fret us? To lips like his a thistle is a lettuce."
— Comparisons

January 1, 1970

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Free translation. by William Ewart of the witticism that made Crassus laugh for the only time, on seeing an ass eat thistles. Quoted by Facciolati (Bailey's ed.) and by Moore in his Diary (Lord John Russell's ed.).