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Quotation of the Day for November 2, 2015



"...a sideboard carried an array of silver cigarette-cases with the arms and monograms of friends who had bestowed them for standing godfather or being best man at a wedding or second in a duel."

- Patrick Leigh Fermor, from his memoir Between the Woods and the Water, on visiting a country home in Transylvania in 1933.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Oct. 30, 2015

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