"Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion."

-- Robert Caro

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“A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.”
“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.”
“Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.”
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.”
“Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you”
“I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.”
“I don't really wear a lot of makeup, but before I get off an airplane, I use some Laura Mercier Foundation Primer in Radiance, and I just love it.That's my go-to. I normally do that on the plane before I walk off and that's it.”

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“Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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