As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

“Her palace shimered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in politi…”

“It did what a foreign adventure is supposed to do-it made the mundane thrilling.”

“The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicer…”

“It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rath…”