In contrast, once food can be stockpiled, a political elite can gain control of food produced by others, assert the right of taxation, escape the need to feed itself, and engage full-time in political activities. Guns, Germs And Steel
But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Moby Dick
Check your passions, that you may not be punished by them. Fragment
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. The Common Reader
Quotes