English Period

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“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
—18th-century English proverb.

“When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)