"Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object."

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A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.

— P. D. James