Margaret Deland Quotes
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
Deland, Margaret. If This Be I, As I Suppose It Be. D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935.
The first three public libraries had been opened in Rome under Augustus. By Constantine’s reign there were 28. Libraries at the time were not only repositories of books and manuscripts but places of social congregation of men—a cross between a men’s club and a modern library. In the great Roman library at Ephesus, an underground tunnel connected with the brothel across the street. When the barbarians invaded, all the libraries closed.
Li Feigan or Li Yaotang
He was discussing his unprecedented steps that as Federal Reserve Chairman he took to cope with the Great Recession after the Meltdown of 2008. He had, as a graduate doctoral student, studied the economic history of the Great Depression of 1929 and the government attempts to ameliorate some of the effects. He was one of the few people in government who had this historical perspective.
Margaret Deland (née Margaretta Wade Campbell) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement.
