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You grow up eating bread and jam as a nipper, and you die eating bread and jam in an nursing home.
The bit in the middle doesn't last forever, and I suspect Mrs Turner is not dealing with the decline in to the twilight years of her life.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Notallthere wrote : I had marmite, not jam. Can't bear jam.
Ah. Perhaps I'll rewrite it then.
You grow up eating crap as a nipper , and you die eating crap in an nursing home.
The bit in the middle is where you get to change the menu for as long as you can.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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