"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."

Age, Poetry, Cleverness, Literature

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"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."

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Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

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John Pople, English Scientist

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

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"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."

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"I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday."

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"It is not a fragrant world."

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"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business."

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"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."

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"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."

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"The more you reason the less you create."

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"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."

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