Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each others food. – Jean Baudrillard
Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers