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3. Accumulating knowledge is form of avarice, and lends itself to another version of the Midas story. This time, of a man so avid for knowledge that everything he touches turns to facts.
10. Mystical ecstasy and laughter are the two great delights of living, and saints and clowns, their purveyors, the only two categories of human beings who can be relied on to tell the truth. Hence, steeples and gargoyles side by side on the great cathedrals.
24. A truly peaceful day from beginning to end is a great rarity in this world.
Go read it. I don't think I can improve on it.
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Loved it. It was not so long ago, but the perspective is not from out culture. And we need such reminders that everyone did not always think as we do now.
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