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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn’t have the detection techniques in those days.