“Give up the girl? I swear she will grow old
at home in Argos, far from her own country,
working my loom and visiting my bed.”
― The Iliad
at home in Argos, far from her own country,
working my loom and visiting my bed.”
― The Iliad
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde, ‘The Critic as Artist’, Intentions (1891)”
― The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History
― The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History
“What shall I tell Mother?” The boy continued. "Tell her you have seen a broken-hearted woman cast off by her son.”
― The Return of the Native
― The Return of the Native
“The appeal of history to us all is in the last analysis poetic.”
― The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History
― The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History
“and then the thought burst upon her that the furze-cutter was her son.”
― The Return of the Native
― The Return of the Native
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