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Book cover for At Home: A Short History of Private Life
The best policy was to plug the pores with dirt. For the next six hundred years most people didn’t wash, or even get wet,
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“Queen Elizabeth, in a much-cited quote, faithfully bathed once a month “whether she needs it or no.”
Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Erik Larson
“But I had at least hoped to find some decent people around Hitler. I am horrified to discover that the whole gang is nothing but a horde of criminals and cowards.” Fromm”
Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Sholom Aleichem
“Tell me yourself—rather than suffering because of daughters, as Tevye has, is it not a thousand times better to lie in the ground and bake bagels?”
Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman & Motl the Cantor's Son

Max Brooks
“It’s a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time.”
Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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