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Just as three unrelated women living in the same house was once, in some places, legally a brothel,
fasces
That’s your catastrophe.” Mason: “Or at the very least the century’s most destructive prank.” Humanist: “Utopians?”
the absurdity of owing allegiance to the patch of dirt where babe first parted from placenta.
There is no more shame in reusing such a rich inheritance than in knowing other kings’ hands held this sword before you drew it from the stone.
«The Patriarch wrote that the halfwit is always happier than the philosopher, but the philosopher would not trade knowledge for ignorance, not for all the happiness in the world. Your son seemed to me half a philosopher, but still half happy.»
