#rope

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#america #any #before #disease #early

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#asked #away #chair #dinner #down

Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work. ↗

— Tom Araya

#first #give #give me #me #off

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#described #love #perfection #properly #study

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#before #bosnia #closing #could #create