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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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. – Ernest Hemingway

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architecture
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighters honor. – Ernest Hemingway

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Art
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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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good
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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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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. – Scottish Proverb

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Some days, we just need to turn the quiet up. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time. – George J. Mitchell

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didnt make it. – Richard Pryor

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movies