"Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a Brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions. Yet this is the Book, which young Women are recommended to study."

-- Matthew Lewis

#Book Quotes #Expression Quotes #Names Quotes

“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.”
“Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.”

Source : William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”
“To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.”
“Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction.”
“Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?”
“Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press
“In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government”

Source : John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”
“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”

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