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Adam of Eynsham, the biographer of St. Hugh of Lincoln, testifies to the King holding truly devout men in high regard, and Walter Map tells of him tactfully averting his eyes and making no comment when a monk’s habit blew up and exposed his
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“She’s an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris.”
― The Bread We Eat in Dreams
― The Bread We Eat in Dreams
“But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.”
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“When nature called, the men would relieve themselves in a pot at the sideboard without interrupting their conversation, an English custom instituted not so much for convenience as to preempt any excuse for the weak of stomach or head to sneak out before the drinking was finished.”
― The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum
― The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum
“You can’t immerse yourself in something,” Prof said softly, “without coming to respect it.”
― Firefight
― Firefight
“In reality, France's American territory extended to the west as far as a Frenchman could go without getting shot by a Spaniard, and likewise to the north without getting shot by an Englishman.”
― How the States Got Their Shapes
― How the States Got Their Shapes
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