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    poggio's refuge

    DateFriday, October 28, 2011 at 8:33AM in

    Every man awaits his destined hour; even the cities are doomed to their fate . . . . Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire.

    Poggio Bracciolini
    Rome, September 1430

     from Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

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