Mary Renault Quote

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?


The Last of the Wine (1956)


What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?