“The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.”

— Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

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journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838–1918

Hal Colebatch

"The Colonel's Tiger", Man-Kzin Wars VII, Baen, 1995, p. 77. ISBN 0-671-87670-8.

“This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

“I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now?”

Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer

To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!
The Heretic (1968)

“She that asks
Her dear five hundred friends.”

William Cowper The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 642.

“Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.”

Eratosthenes (-276–-194 BC) ancient Greek scientist

Vitruvius, De Architectura, Book 1, Chap 6, Sec. 9; as translated in Morris Hicky Morgan (trans.), Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture (1914), 27-28.
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