Many are the mighty things, and nought is more mighty than man.
 Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879). copy citation

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“R. L. S. CONTENTS This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse VELAY "Many are the mighty things, and nought is more mighty than man. . . . He masters by his devices the tenant of the fields." —Antigone. "Who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?" —Job. VELAY THE DONKEY, THE PACK, AND THE PACK-SADDLE IN a little place called Le Monastier, in a pleasant highland valley fifteen miles from Le Puy, I spent about a month of fine days.” source