Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

“Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients t…”

“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of…”

“[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity…”

“The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader…”