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“Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.”

Giving Art Philosophy History Comfort Civilization

Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.”

Needs Mind Art Philosophy Seems History Comfort Wavelength

Book:The Turtle Diary

Source: The Turtle Diary

“We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed the most worthy of the heavenly present. The names of Seneca, of the elder and the younger Pliny, of Tacitus, of Plutarch, of Galen, of the slave Epictetus, and of the emperor Marcus Antoninus, adorn the age in which they flourished, and exalt the dignity of human natures.”

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including

“The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.”

Inspirational War Motivational America Lost Rooms History Military Television Comfort Vietnam Vietnam War Brutality Battlefields Living Room

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.”

Ifs Doe History Knowing Comfort Offers Solutions Obvious Nothing New

Author:Eamon Duffy

“History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.”

Writing Past Mistake History Comfort Historical Conform Repetition Convenience Torches Rewriting

Author:Claude Bowers

“Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either useful or agreeable, he might very naturally expect that the diligence and fidelity of a few years would be rewarded with the inestimable gift of freedom.”

Ifs Years Might Would Be Opportunity History Conditions Comfort Slave Denied Imperfect Fidelity Diligence Roman Empire Rendering

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition