He didn't at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it -- nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes. Bleak House
“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saw are truer than the objects which are now shown to him?” Republic
It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them. Beware of Pity
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