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Quote by Matthew Arnold
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. - Mat

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. – Matthew Arnold

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Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat. – Matthew Arnold

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Cats
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Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled. – Matthew Arnold

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Belief
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Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. – Matthew Arnold

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Beauty
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Although it is generally known, I think its about time to announce that I was born at a very early age. – Douglas Horton

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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. – T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950

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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. – Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

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Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a blame to any people. – Bible

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Independence is happiness. – Susan B. Anthony

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A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. – Author unknown, from an editorial in New-York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for

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So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. – Samuel Bonom

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