Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600. National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Gone to Greece to fight for the country’s liberation from Ottoman rule, Lord Byron, who financed a fighting force, noted in his journal on September 28, 1823, that he “did not come to join a faction but a nation—and to deal with honest men” and was dismayed to find that “they are such d——d liars; there never was such an incapacity for veracity shown since Eve lived in Paradise.” Nevertheless, he died there on April 19, 1824, after contracting a fever.
Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCLapham’sDaily
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