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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

Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway

There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games. – Ernest Hemingway

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Wherever you see a man who gives someone elses corruption, someone elses prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. – John Jay Chapman

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A bad forgerys the ultimate insult. – Jonathan Gash

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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. – Henry David Thoreau

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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. – Walter Lippmann

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. – Sylvia Plath

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