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“I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war' he'd…

— Alessandro Baricco

“But, indeed, dull, dreary adversity was now in store for him; and adversity, come it at eighteen or eighty, is the true old age…

— Herman Melville

“It was truly a transitional moment: There he was, at the cusp of the twentieth century, using the telephone to send a telegram.”

— Erik Larson

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”

— Nick Taylor

“Of course in 1860, I had heard the political talk.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“Was he the only one who was just old enough to speak out, not yet so old and jaded that he acceded to authority…

— wildbow

“The hundred-year-old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he was not…

— Jonas Jonasson

“It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt…

— James Joyce

“Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, &c. The latter fear the people, and wish to…

— Thomas Jefferson