Thursday, 30 November 2017

Nowadays most long novels are bad

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Besides, nowadays most long novels are bad. It was different a hundred or two hundred years ago. Today life moves faster, its parts are les...
Monday, 27 November 2017

The Hungarians are more honourable and cleaner infidels

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The Hungarians are Protestants while the Austrians are Catholics. Therefore these two infidel groups are opposites to one another, despite ...
Friday, 24 November 2017

As for coffee: it is an innovation

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As for coffee: it is an innovation; it prevents sleep; it dulls the generative powers; and coffee houses are dens of sedition. Evliya Cele...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017

I have no enemies ... I've had them all shot

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'Do you forgive your enemies?' a nineteenth century Duke of Valencia [this one ] is asked on his deathbed in a famous Spanish anecdo...
Monday, 30 October 2017

She has a fatal weakness for the past

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Party it is plain old-fashionedness that makes Spain feel so special. She has a fatal weakness for the past. When the French were building ...
Sunday, 29 October 2017

More often plunging helplessly downwards in a welter of despair and recrimination

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Spanish geographers are very fond of elevation graphs - diagrams which, by cutting an imaginary slice through the Iberian Peninsula, show h...
Saturday, 28 October 2017

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[Burke] [The state] becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, an...