Sunday, November 08, 2020

 

Brainless

Walter Savage Landor, "Peter Leopold and President Du Paty," Imaginary Conversations, Vol. II (London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1901), pp. 176-233 (at 229-230):
Domitian never did against his enemies what these free nations have done against themselves.

The sea-tortoise can live without its brains,—an old discovery! Men can govern without theirs,—an older still!



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