Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
“Respectability was not an ideal, it was an armour.”
— C. L. R. James, book Beyond a Boundary
Source: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 8
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