Diminished Intervals

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“The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the “means” are increased.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, sons of the same soil, at intervals of three centuries were, in a political sense, the levers of Archimedes. Each in turn was an embodied idea finding its fulcrum in the interests of man.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)