"History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit."

-- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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“My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is true: at this time of year, when days are short and dark, and one hardly dares to open the newspapers, I turn, not vainly either, to the great creators of the past for distraction, solace and help.”
“You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.”
“The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.”
“The soul that feeds on books alone -- I count that soul exceeding small That lives alone by book and creed, -- A soul that has not learned to read.”

Source : "The Larger College". "In Classic Shades, and Other Poems". Book by Joaquin Miller, 1890.
“Why write stories? To join the conversation.”
“It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.”
“The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose...”
“The eyes of love see all of us as one.”

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