John Leonard: Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? — John Leonard

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

John Leonard

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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all. — Sophocles
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fl — Edward Young
Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and — Olaf Stapledon
The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the fir — Leonardo da Vinci
季文子三思而後行。子聞之曰、再、斯可矣。 — Confucius
'Tain't a knowin' kind of cattle Thet is ketched with mouldy corn. — James Russell Lowell
L'étude prête une sorte de magie à tout ce qui nous environne. — Honoré de Balzac
"Je réussirai !" Le mot du joueur, du grand capitaine, mot fataliste qui perd pl — Honoré de Balzac
The principal point of their doctrine is that the soul does not die and that aft — Julius Caesar on Druids
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which t — Samuel Johnson
Der philosophische Mensch hat sogar das Vorgefühl, dass auch unter dieser Wirkli — Friedrich Nietzsche
No es favor del Príncipe, sino pecho, el comunicarlo. Quiebran muchos el espejo — Baltasar Gracián