And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The Old Man and the Sea.
ReplyDeletePossibly the best short story of all time.
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I think the shortest novel of all time is also attributed to Hemingway. "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Steve_in_Ottawa
Delete….only to off himself later in a drunken stupor.
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DeleteHe did dumbass
DeleteYes, he was an alcoholic, but he also had serious mental issues, likely related to numerous serious head injuries,
DeleteLiving life large, years before suck starting a shotgun.
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