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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
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Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
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Philip Saltier
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
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