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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.

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Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we

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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

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I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

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The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

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Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

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