Charles James Fox/1797%e2%80%931806 - Political Wilderness

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    “It is my hope to be able to prove that television is the greatest step forward we have yet made in the preservation of humanity. It will make of this Earth the paradise we have all envisioned, but have never seen.”
    —Joseph O’Donnell. Clifford Sanforth. Professor James Houghland, Murder by Television, just before he demonstrates his new television device (1935)

    “In a room with a stuffed fox and a stale fern,”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “These were such houses as the lumberers of Maine spend the winter in, in the wilderness ... the camps and the hovels for the cattle, hardly distinguishable, except that the latter had no chimney.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)