An idea from Letters to His Son

One gentleman got through all the Latin poets in the bathroom. He tore a couple of pages at a time from a cheap Horace, read them there, and threw them away. Spare minutes of that kind add up quickly.

From Letters to His Son by Lord Chesterfield

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