People get a bad impression of it by continually trying…

People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don’t try to predict what.

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Of the English climate, from The Observer (London, Aug. 7, 1966)

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