"There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better."

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Source : Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”

Vernon Lee

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“In the end, living is defined by dying.”
“What would be the worst that could happen to me? Would they hang me?”
“I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.”
“It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.”
“No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.”

Source : Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press
“My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.”
“Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.”
“Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.”

Source : Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.169

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