(1929 - 1968) Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious.
The child that was to have rested upon a magnificent couch, draped with silken curtains, in a luxurious home; it was to have been welcomed with joy to a life rich in all the good things of this world; and now Heaven had ordained that it should be born in this humble retreat, that it should not even receive a kiss from its mother, for when the fisherman's wife laid the child upon the mother's bosom, it rested on a heart that beat no more—she was dead.
As soon as you touch the plate, your peaceful and luxurious life will be over.
