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«I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.»
«It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.»
«HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments --a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling --tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility --these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, _The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion_ --4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, _Delectatio Demonorum_ (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on _Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
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Writer)
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«I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.»
«Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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Critic,
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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«And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.»
«In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Philosopher)
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«If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.»
«Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Dramatist,
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Poet)
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