I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit: touch it and the bloom is gone.
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Modern Times
Posted by: Save a Quote Staff
Published before 06/01/2004
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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The first man's need is the unnecessary.
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The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have absolutely no respect of dyed hair.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men. I wonder we women stand it as well as we do.
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It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they're alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
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For lovers to elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
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The young women of the present day seem to make it the sole object of their lives to be always playing with fire.
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