“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”
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“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.”
― Reflections on the Revolution in France
― Reflections on the Revolution in France
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