{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/1283.htm","path":"aor/dv/1283.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/1283.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nAn artizan often going to visit a great gentleman without any definite purpose, the gentleman asked him what he did this for. The other said that he came there to have a pleasure which his lordship could not have;\nsince to him it was a satisfaction to see men greater than himself, as is the way with the populace; while the gentleman could only see men of less consequence than himself; and so lords and great men were deprived of that pleasure.","title":"Vol. II: XX. Humorous Writings: 1283.","type":"page"}