The words induced me to turn towards myself. I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with only one of these advantages; but, without either, he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few!

-Frankenstein (1831)

    • daisy
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      1 year ago

      Lord Byron

      It's fun to troll a certain class of head-up-their-ass classics scholars by pretending not to know who he was when his name comes up in conversation - then pretend to suddenly remember him as "Ada Lovelace's deadbeat dad".

    • richietozier4 [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      ah, the man who inspired the vampire genre because his ex wanted to call him a slut

    • mazdak
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      1 year ago

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