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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.: Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936), The Hour of Decision, 1933
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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)
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.: Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), Collected poems (1952)
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.: Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning"
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)

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