"You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me."

-- Oscar Wilde

#Picture Of Dorian Gray Quotes

“You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.'”

Source : Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)
“We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.”
“Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?”
“The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides.”
“To refuse to respond is in itself a response.”
“I think the Statue of David is pretty sexy. I'd do him.”
“A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.”
“There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.”

Source : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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