Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

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Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

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If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

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Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

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The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

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