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    In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 23:40.

    One of the criminals crucified with Jesus , to the other.

    Every sentence is the result of a long probation.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)