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One of the most remarkable shindigs I ever attended was in Warsaw. Rory MacLean

Remarkable Attended Most Warsaw Ever

I grew up under the spell of London. Illustrator Kerry Lee's evocative 1950 wall map of the city hung above our breakfast table at home in Canada. Over my corn flakes, I traced the capital's high roads and medieval alleys. Rory MacLean

Home Breakfast Corn Spell Our Hung Evocative High City Table London Above Alley Roads Over Lee Up Canada Wall Grew Capital Map Illustrator Medieval Kerry

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It's a contrary, complex and creative city, an anarchist of a thousand faces - fickle and unfailing, tender and bleak, ambitious and callous. Rory MacLean

Me Creative Fickle Anarchist Ways Complex Thousand City London Faces Both Tender Bleak Callous Fresh Always Surprised Ambitious Itself Familiar Contrary Moved Reinventing

Good travel books, like travel itself, open the door to new worlds. In the strongest works the author's vision becomes our own, especially if his or her subject is a distant destination. Rory MacLean

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. Sallust

Wealth Glorious Virtue Possession Glory Goes Eternal Fleeting Fragile

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve. Sallust

Mind Rule Employ Body Serve

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. Sallust

Thrive States Destroyed Smallest Greatest Discord Union

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old. Sallust

Old Sets Everything Rises Grows

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. Sallust

Angry Anger Will Nothing He Anything

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself. Sallust

Great Reward Seemed Great Reward Stir Up Itself Just Things

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. Sallust

Honesty Envy Distinction Methods Won Which Gained Them Toils Therefore

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. Sallust

Words State Despised Honorable Beyond Most Rendered Go Even Services

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity. Sallust

Friendship Anger First Sentiment Every Minds Those Point Clear Opinion Offer Any Pity Dislike Should Doubtful Who

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed. Sallust

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. Sallust

Light Ancestors Distinguished Concealment Powerful Merits Forbid Shed Either Descendants

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction. Samuel E. Morison

Life Respect Balance Courage Honesty Will Young Rich Philosophy Find Embraces Above Purpose Tradition Historical Person Durable Any Rewards Young Person Who Profession Satisfaction

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts. Samuel E. Morison

Truth Starts Everyone Define Come Agree

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. Samuel E. Morison

Sense Circumstances See Methodology Historical Common Common Sense Product Applied

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. Samuel E. Morison

Nothing Offer Revolutionary Even Novel

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