History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our...

History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.

Jean Henri Fabre Quote About Kings, Names, Way: History Celebrates The Battlefields Whereon...

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