"OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph.""

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Rome Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Honor Quotes

“There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.”
“If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.”
“The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.”
“People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there”
“To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence.”

Source : Roger Housden (2014). “Keeping the Faith Without a Religion”, p.8, Sounds True
“A great wine served in fine glassware is beautiful. But it is also seductive and full of strange promise and perhaps the slightest hint of naughtiness, all waiting to be uncoiled.”
“Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.”
“Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber

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