by aurumlupus » Thu Aug 08, 2013 2:20 pm
Khalil laughed softly. "They were also a lot harder. You had to work for every single thing in your life. You couldn't just buy everything you needed or wanted, unless you were royalty. Otherwise, it was all hand made. Also, very few people knew how to read, sanitation was almost non-existent, plagues and diseases were common, along with a lot of wild creatures and brigands more than willing to kill a person."
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more:
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."
"And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything."