Friday, May 29, 2015
Daily Dose
From The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm, edited by Phillip Lopate
IT IS
"It is only oppression that can keep human beings as they are. Oppression never crushes natural instincts. All history proves that it does but intensify them."
From A Cloud of Pinafores
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