“But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.” IfsUseHandsMightAmericaGreaterHonestFoolThirdsCalamityBreachEnglish History Author:James G. Frazer
“The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.” TwoNumbersCitiesUselessExpensesPlagueCalamityFamineOutcastDroughtScapegoatAthenians Author:James G. Frazer