“Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?” Republic
No waves of native grain ever stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of North America. Guns, Germs And Steel
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. The Return of the King
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side. Don Quixote
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