What is An Elegant Sufficiency?
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The measure of pleasure which a lady with A LARGE APPETITE considers appropriate to her needs.
Kynaston Osterford, in his definitive study "Acts of Ancient Carnality" (Bloomfield & Travesty, London, 1947), recounts the famous declaration by Veronica, Dowager Countess of Dorking, when the frisky 79-year-old denied that a routine, morning servicing by her butler and six footmen was excessive.
"Such an apportionment of the necessary victuals of virility to one's parts is, indeed, no more than AN ELEGANT SUFFICIENCY," she told an interviewer on BBC Radio's Woman's Hour, in the series 'Active Aristocrats'. "Any reduction in one's personal MEAT RATION would be unendurable austerity, resulting in mere, idle frigging and not to be contemplated."
See noblesse oblige , butler , Persson
Kynaston Osterford, in his definitive study "Acts of Ancient Carnality" (Bloomfield & Travesty, London, 1947), recounts the famous declaration by Veronica, Dowager Countess of Dorking, when the frisky 79-year-old denied that a routine, morning servicing by her butler and six footmen was excessive.
"Such an apportionment of the necessary victuals of virility to one's parts is, indeed, no more than AN ELEGANT SUFFICIENCY," she told an interviewer on BBC Radio's Woman's Hour, in the series 'Active Aristocrats'. "Any reduction in one's personal MEAT RATION would be unendurable austerity, resulting in mere, idle frigging and not to be contemplated."
