Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Babe Paley, fully Barbara Cushing "Babe" Mortimer Paley
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"The common course of things is in favor of happiness. Happiness is the rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want."
"What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power."