To: Jim Robinson
"It is almost a law of history that the same wealth that generates a civilization announces its decay. For wealth produce ease as well as art; it softens a people to the ways of luxury and peace and invites invasion from stronger arms and hungrier mouths."
WILL DURANT
To: Scythian_Reborn
“It is almost a law of history that the same wealth that generates a civilization announces its decay. For wealth produce ease as well as art; it softens a people to the ways of luxury and peace and invites invasion from stronger arms and hungrier mouths.”
WILL DURANT
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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
—Voltaire
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08/09/2018 2:56:16 PM PDT by
Flick Lives
(Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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