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Historical literature3 quotes
The things you think are disasters in your life are not disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it. — Hilary Mantel · 2012We think time cannot touch the dead, but it touches their monuments, leaving them snub-nosed and stub-fingered from the accidents and attrition of time. — Hilary Mantel · 2012Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor’s office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law. — Hilary Mantel · 2012Scientific literature1 quote
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. — Herbert Spencer · 1865