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“To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.”
― The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern
― The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.”
― The Confessions of an English Opium Eater/The Daughter of Lebanon
― The Confessions of an English Opium Eater/The Daughter of Lebanon
“In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.”
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