Minute Silence

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“In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf.... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then ... be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)