"We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth."
Il Gattopardo
Italian writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa died #OTD in 1957.
A literary man of complex personality and author of the well-known novel The Leopard, he was a taciturn and solitary character and spent much of his time in reading.