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Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.
A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
In Art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.
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Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
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