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To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.: Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), Eminent Victorians (1918)
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Dialogues (1954)
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.: Kenneth Williams, Acid Drops (1980)
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech to Congress, Apr. 2, 1917
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), A Room of One's Own (1929)
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I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.: Alexander Woollcott (1887 - 1943), Letter to Rex O'Malley, 1942

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