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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite,…
— William Blake
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for…
— Andrew Ford
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Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
— Unknown Author
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The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest…
— Abel Hermant
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Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
— H. L. Mencken
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because…
— Samuel Johnson
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There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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