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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.


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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.



If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.



Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.



The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.



Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.



Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.



Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming



He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.



Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!



Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.





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The others were a little surprised when Piper came back on a pegasus with two unconscious demigods.

The others were a little surprised when Piper came back on a pegasus with two unconscious demigods.



The good thing about being stuck at the airport for an extra hour, is that it gives you a chance to give weary travelers surprise massages.

The good thing about being stuck at the airport for an extra hour, is that it gives you a chance to give weary travelers surprise massages.



As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.



You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.

You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.



There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.



If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.



The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.




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