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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

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. – Ernest Hemingway

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best
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Ernest Hemingway
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Ive tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that Im afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. – Ernest Hemingway

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Hope
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Ernest Hemingway
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Other Quotes from
Corruption
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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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Corruption

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

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Corruption

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Corruption

A bad forgerys the ultimate insult. – Jonathan Gash

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Corruption

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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a mans house is a monopoly. – Daniel Webster

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Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. – Albert Bushnell Hart

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The future comes one day at a time. – Dean Acheson

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Future, The

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that youre going to reach but thats going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now. – Chuck D.

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Computers