Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries. René Descartes

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

René Descartes

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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? Thomas Jefferson For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. Annie Besant

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