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  • He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! - holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!

    Quoted by Longfellow in Hyperion, Book III, Chapter II. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 394-395, 1922.