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A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
[ Self Knowledge ]
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
[ Economy ]
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One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
[ Hope ]
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
[ Religion ]
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
[ Passion ]
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
[ Religion ]
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
[ Religion ]
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
[ Cities ]
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