“On the first days of your Arrival at Albany I dare say you had Nothing to do with Any Body’s letters. But I will now Become the Bolder in interrupting your Amorous Occupations as exclusive of other Motives the importance of the Matters I have to Mention may Countenance your indulging your dear self with some Minutes Respite.”
“I went out with General Hamilton on Saturday the 21st, and stayed till Sunday evening. There was a furious and dreadful storm on Saturday night. It blew almost a hurricane. His house stands high and was very much exposed, and I am certain that in the second story, where I slept, it rocked like a cradle. He never appeared before so friendly and amiable. I was alone, and he treated me with a minute attention that I did not suppose he knew how to bestow. His manners were also very delicate and chaste. His daughter, who is nineteen years old, has a very uncommon simplicity and modesty of deportment, and he appeared in his domestic state the plain, modest, and affectionate father and husband.”
— Judge William Kent to his Wife- April 26, 1804 (via Memoirs and Letters of James Kent, pg 143)
i still don’t really understand how tumblr ended up being my primary social media. like how did i and everyone i know look at this horribly designed shoddily coded microblogging platform with a user base full of teenagers and which desperately wants you to use it in any way other than the way we use it and think “time to live my online life here for several years”
using tumblr as your main social media platform is like one step above using yahoo answers as your main social media platform
“The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor…[she] descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was, for her time and place, remarkably well behaved.” – Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life
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