Peter Short Stories

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    “No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.”
    —Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)

    “Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “But stories that live longest
    Are sung above the glass,
    And Parnell loved his country
    And Parnell loved his lass.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)