English Shepherds

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“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
—18th-century English proverb.

“We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)