Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little mo

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. – Ernest Hemingway

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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway

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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterflys wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. – Ernest Hemingway

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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. – Bess Myerson

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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. – John Lyly

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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. – Graham Greene

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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. – Henri Bergson

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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they cant tell the truth without lying. – Josh Billings

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O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! – William Shakespeare

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