As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing useful, and whether the society could support the necessary specialist scribes. Guns, Germs And Steel
No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Never Give In!
... people only count their misfortunes; their good luck they take no account of. But if they were to take everything into account, as they should, they'd find that they had their fair share of it. Notes from Underground
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid Northanger Abbey
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