Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery. On Duties
Thus, Fertile Crescent and eastern Mediterranean societies had the misfortune to arise in an ecologically fragile environment. They committed ecological suicide by destroying their own resource base. Guns, Germs And Steel
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise. Old Curiosity Shop
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. Ulysses
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