Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly. - Max Beerbohm - Quotesmemo.com

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The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was the age of Pericles, and the endeavour to substitute certain truth for the prescriptions of impaired authorities, which was then beginning to absorb the energies of the Greek intellect, is the grandest movement in the profane annals of mankind, for to it we owe, even after the immeasurable progress accomplished by Christianity, much of our philosophy and far the better part of the political knowledge we possess.

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Max Beerbohm

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

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You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

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In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

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