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“Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President and did not run turned out to be treated by history as much more minor figures politically.”

People Moments Running President Figures Treated Fascinating Minors

Author:Stephen Ambrose

“Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.”

World Humans Children Long Real Moments Born Human Beings Childhood Our Children Treated Sufficient Real World

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.”

Source: Literature and life, lects

“From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.”

Moments Kings Treated Authorship

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations