"Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace,……" — Quintilian

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• I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
• Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
• A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,… — Mikhail Bakunin
• But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and… — Mikhail Bakunin
• Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
• What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially… — Dave Barry
• No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath… — Bruce Barton
• Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point… — Simone de Beauvoir
• It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas… — Simone de Beauvoir
• The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
• The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. — Aneurin Bevan
• Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. — Theodor Adorno

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