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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?
Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual read more
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold read more
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care read more
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.
All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.
All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.
. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured read more
. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one read more
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it