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“The Browning Society”

“'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”

“A recording of Browning reciting five lines from "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix”

“There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.”

“Autumn wins you best by this its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.”

“When is man strong until he feels alone?”

Resonant Thoughts

"When in 1998, the new BJP Government nominated people of its own choice to the Indian Council of Historical Research, a roar of indignation went up among Indian Marxists against this “politicization o…"

— Koenraad Elst

Indology1959

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"You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you."

— Stephen King

Literature1986

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"Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevi…"

— Philip Roth

Literature1933–2018

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"Jesus, whose birth was very equivocal, had particular reasons for wishing that adultery should be treated with indulgence. Independently of Mary his mother, from whom Joseph was probably separated, ou…"

— Baron d'Holbach

Philosophy1723–1789

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