They don’t smoke, but neither do they breathe fresh air really deeply.
They don’t drink wine, but neither do they enjoy lemonade; they don’t swear, but neither do they glory in any magnificent words, neither poetry nor prayer.
They don’t gamble, but neither do they take much chance with God;
They don’t look at women and girls with lust in their hearts, but neither do they roll breathless with love and laughter, naked under the sun of high summer.
It’s all rather pale and round -shouldered, the great Prince lying in prison.
George Target, quoted in “View from a Bouncy Castle”, by Adrian Plass.

