“A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.” WayWritingYearsLiteratureKnowingFourWrittenYouthThousandCuriousThousand YearsMaidensSenility Author:John Barth
“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.” MenCountryDeathFightingKnowingReadyThousandHundredHorseFellows Book:Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
“I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.” FeelsYearsTwoThreeInterestKnowingGreaterHeroThousandYears AgoPassingPassingsThousand YearsAugustusPompey Book:Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson