Restless Gentlemen
… in short, it was the only clear thing in the case – that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen; that they were restless,gentlemen; that they never knew what they wanted; that they lived upon the best, and bought fresh butter; and insisted on Mocha coffee, and rejected all but prime parts of meat, and yet were eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable. In short it was the moral of old nursery fable:
There was an old woman,and what do you think?
She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink,
Victuals and were the whole of her diet,
And yet this old woman would NEVER be quiet.
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
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