“History to the defeated doesn’t even say “alas,” it just cuts them dead.” ~ Ferdinand Mount
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Daily Quote – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I am in fact a hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands. I smoke a pipe, like good, plain food, detest French cooking … I am fond of mushrooms, have a very simple sense of humor … go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.”
Daily Quote – Marcel Duchamp
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
Daily Quote ― A.C. Grayling
“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
Daily Quote ― Michael Oakeshott
“To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”
Daily Quote ― Pier Paolo Pasolini
“If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.”
Daily Quote – Astra Taylor
“We are at risk of starving in the midst of plenty, free culture, like cheap food, incurs hidden costs.”
Daily Quote – Pierre Simon De Laplace
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