O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.
– Ordericus Vitalis –
The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Volume 2
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