“To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Time is man's angel.”
Act V, sc. xi
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
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