But I was no doubt very much stimulated by the literature lying about my home and the gleans and echoes of controversies that played like summer lightning round and about the horizons of my world.
"The Passionate Friends"
Herbert George Wells
Then only will foreign and home politics be inseparably connected, whereas to-day the latter follows its haughty dictator, and gleans in sorry baskets the stubble that is left over from the harvest of the former.
"Human, All-Too-Human, Part II"
Friedrich Nietzsche
Another resource of economy yet remains, for he gleans the field very closely,-1800l.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke