The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. – Henry Adams
I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just cant sustain it. – Colin Quinn
![[A]ll life budding like a rose and sparkling like its dew. - Edgar](/quote/life-budding-like-rose-sparkling-like.jpg "[A]ll life budding like a rose and sparkling like its dew. - Edgar")
