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Power move to demote the president of a bank to running a vegetable stand outside your estate just because he displeased you

Love Agamemnon being like "AHA, I will try and tempt the men to go home to test them, as is the CUSTOM!" only to flick to the notes at the back and Emily Wilson is like "he made all that up, it's not a custom, and also it's a terrible strategy" 👑

Here comes the eugenics 💀

Trains have always been the best vehicle CONFIRMED; you can't get a hot bath on a stupid plane, can you? NO, get out of here

Can't believe wheat domesticated us like this. What a cunning grass.

My favourite character is the chimpanzee who lied and did the call for "careful, there's a lion" and ran in and stole the banana his friend dropped out of fear

Planes were so crazy back then but not as crazy as the pilots oh my god

"humans have extraordinarily large brains."

Started listening to this like half an hour after pouring water all over myself and my blanket and my pillow and my phone so......I object.

"Governor Fuller, after their first meeting, came out fishing "what an attractive man!""
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How can you target a man who his friends describe as having sad eyes who just goes around in his little fish cart selling eels on Christmas like W H Y I'm so mad

Not even a hot-take but I don't like Henry Ford and I wish he'd stayed at home with his soy beans

Fordlandia was crazy I hate it there

Okay maybe I started this six whole years ago at this point so it might be time to finish it now.....ITS NOT EVEN LIKE I WASNT ENJOYING IT I just get so easily distracted by novels okay I'm sorry Bill

I've never experienced crying from sheer sweetness before but that ballroom scene had me by the heart, what can I say. Sadness is great and everything but have you ever tried joy? It's alright