Inferno: Canto XIV
Dante Alighieri
“Because the charity of my native place Constrained me, gathered I the scattered leaves, And gave them back to him, who now was hoarse.”
“Because the charity of my native place Constrained me, gathered I the scattered leaves, And gave them back to him, who now was hoarse.”
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. That’s what they say, but I’m not so sure. I’ve learned my history, and I go on repeating it. I repeat it, on average, eight times a day, five days a week.”
“About twenty of us sat in the conference room waiting for the boss to walk in. The room was warm and smelled faintly of sweat.”
“This morning the front page of the Diario Vasco—for once—shares the same headline as the other Spanish newspapers.”
“Now, I do not believe that my children will pack up their bookcase and a fort of some kind had been built with dresser drawers in one corner of the room.”