Quotes

“It seems to me that the ladies ain’t contented with looking now-a-days. Whatever the men do they’ll do. Trollope, Anthony. Barchester Towers (Kindle Locations

The caricature of Grant as a filthy “butcher” is ironic for a man who couldn’t stomach the sight of blood, studiously refrained from romanticizing

Seldom, if ever, has a literary masterpiece been composed under such horrific circumstances. Whenever he swallowed anything, Grant was stricken with pain and had

Net crude imports have dropped below 3 million barrels a day compared with nearly 13 million roughly 12 years ago when President George W.

The author now leaves him in the hands of his readers: not as a hero, not as a man to be admired and talked

Some think that we are quickly progressing towards perfection, while others imagine that virtue is disappearing from the earth.” Trollope, Anthony. Barchester Towers (Kindle

Connect Grant’s hatred of blood and unwillingness to eat raw meat from Grant with Da Vinci’s use of corpses to learn anatomy.

The most expensive thing you can have is an idea

The penis sometimes displays an intellect of its own. When a man may desire it to be stimulated, it remains obstinate and goes its

Leonardo was never known to have a relationship with a woman… “The sexual act of coitus and the body parts employed for it are