During a prolonged study of the lives of various men both great and small, I came upon this thought: In the web of the world the one may well be regarded as the warp, the other as the woof.
It is the little men, after all, who give breadth to the web, and the great men firmness and solidity; perhaps, also, the addition of some sort of pattern.
But the scissors of the Fates determine its length, and to that all the rest must join in submitting itself.
IMAGE: Francesco Salviati, The Three Fates (1550)
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