Status Updates From Three Great Works

“There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.”

“At no time of the world’s history have men been at a loss how to inflict mental and bodily anguish upon their fellow-creatures.”

Again, when the story gets good, we get it not from the narrator, but in a letter being written by one of the characters.