All things are literally better, lovelier, and mor — John Ruskin
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.
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The first duty of a State is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed, and educated, till it attains years of discretion.
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Taste . . . is the only morality. . . . Tell me what you like, and I’ll tell you what you are.
The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. v
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Groucho Marx
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Leonardo da Vinci