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«What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
brood,
brooded,
broods,
carefully,
classes,
contentment,
cursed,
detested,
detesting,
detests,
fat,
hated,
healthiness,
optimism,
preserved,
prosperous
«The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.»
«The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations»
«The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(
Historian,
Political scientist)
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Keywords:
American civilization,
coarse,
denote,
denotes,
preserved,
remote,
rusticity,
The Americans,
unacquainted,
unacquainted with,
villager,
villagers
«Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.»
«The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.»