Smoot/history

Famous quotes containing the words smoot and/or history:

“Of smale houndes hadde she that she fedde
With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed.
But soore wepte she if oon of hem were deed,
Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte—
And al was conscience and tendre herte.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
—William James (1842–1910)