Thursday, June 18, 2015

This was partly metaphorical, partly false and in any case wholly relative

From Scoop by Evelyn Waugh.
At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his great success in life to the habit of "getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in any case wholly relative, for journalists are as a rule late risers.

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