All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of ’38, ’39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.
And I don’t say that we didn’t expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.
The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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