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«When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.»
«Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.»
«What is fame? Fame is but a slow decay, Even this shall pass away»
Author: Theodore Tilton | Keywords: decay, pass away
«Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily -- certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.»
«Without adventure civilization is in full decay»
«Where wealth accumulates, men decay.»
«When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes»
«Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.»

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