When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but
like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little
to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
-- Sir William Temple (1628-1699)
-- Miscellanea, Part ii, Of Poetry
Related:
Did you know?
EVERY TIME A LOAF OF BREAD IS BAKED
APPROXIMATELY
150,000,000 YEASTS ARE
KILLED
Come to the award-winning 1987 film,
"The Very Small and Quiet Screams"
-- a cinematic electromicrograph of yeasts being baked....