Quotes of Comer - somelinesforyou

“ Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price. ”

- Alexander Herzen

“ O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew — hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been. ”

- Gerard Manley Hopkins
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