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A singular world



'We live in a singular world, sir', said Mrs Sparsit.

'I have had the honour, by a coincidence of which I am proud, to have made a remark, similar in effect, though not so epigrammatically expressed.'

Charles Dickens (Hard Times - conversation between Mr Harthouse and Mrs Sparsit)



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