To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin. The Common Reader
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. Book IV
Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body. Seneca's Morals
“Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. That’s why Sapiens rule the world, whereas ants eat our leftovers and chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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