Quote of the Day (15th of July)

In the year 1689, the fifteenth day of July, in the evening, the abbot Kerkabon, prior of our Lady of the Mountain, happened to take the air along the shore with Miss Kerkabon his sister: the prior, who was a little declined in age, was a very good clergyman, beloved by his neighbours, after having been so formerly by their wives. What added most to the respect that was paid him, was, that among all his clerical neighbours, he was the only one that could walk to his bed after supper: he was tolerably read in theology; and when he was tired of reading St. Augustin, he refreshed himself with Rabelais; so all the world spoke well of him.

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