"In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order."

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All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; 3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; 4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

— Charles A. Beard