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Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
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Lay me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
Let me pry loose old walls.
Let me lift and loosen old foundations.Source: Prayers of Steel (1920) -
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change.
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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Throw away the Old Testament! What part of it will you throw away? That which I do not understand? Take down then yonder blood-stained cross; for there is a love there which passeth knowledge, and a Divine hatred of sin which shook the solid earth.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) -
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
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