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The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin…

— Oliver Goldsmith

It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to…

— Laurence Housman

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

— Samuel Johnson

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

— Judith Guest

“To give you an idea of my state of mind I can not do better than compare it to one of those rooms we…

— Alfred De Musset

“One thing you can say for the middle ages, in those days, if you went out to find something, like say, the True Cross,…

— William Kherbek

Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the…

— Peter Ackroyd

“This is the only period in all human history when people were proud of being modern. For though to-day is always to-day and the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite other examples—a fragment of an ancient statue has been…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

— Robert Louis Stevenson