Thursday, May 31, 2018

Inconsistency.......................


Ernest was at first in doubt whether it would be right for him to assist at religious services more than he was actually compelled to do, but the pleasure of playing the organ, and the privileges which the post involved, made him see excellent reasons for not riding consistency to death. Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism...

-Samuel Butler, as lifted from Chapter 68 in The Way Of All Flesh

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