Randall Jarrett:
The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
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From “Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City,” by Russell Shorto – who adds this comment:
He was voicing a suspicion that no matter how grand and prosperous and momentous the time in which you are living may be, its grandeur is inevitably stained by the incessant drabness of the present.
