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“The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.”
Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”
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“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
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“So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many of the ancients the consummation of mathematics-would be by far the most outstanding. This art which is as it were the head of all the liberal arts and the one most worthy of a free man leans upon nearly all the other branches of mathe matics. Arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service.”
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“The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.”
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“If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.”
Source : Kingsley Amis (1978). “Jake's Thing”, Hutchinson Radius
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“It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.”
Source : Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.10
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“Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.”
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“Questions outlive the answers.”