The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it. The Post Office Girl
On the fates of past societies facing problems of sustainability. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men. Art and the Handicraftsman
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. De Beneficiis
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