People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.