“Venice invites moral surrender not with a playful wink, but with the understanding that she is and has always been, sluttish under here regal disgues.” — Elle Newmark Copy Share Image
“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents / Than unswept stone, besmear’d with sluttish time.” (Off topic, but: What a slut time is.… — John Green Copy Share Image
