The Misanthrope’s Corner

DEAR Gentle Readers: ’Tis that season again, and I’m all ready for it. Most people get out their box of tree lights at this time of year, but I got out my box of quotations to find something suitable to kick off my Christmas letter to you.

It didn’t take long. With a new millennium upon us, the winner is Oscar Wilde’s accurate prediction that he would die before the end of 1900 because: “If another century began and I was still alive, it would really be more than the English could stand.”