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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher
Age, Love, Pleasure, Regret
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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

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"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."
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"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another."
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
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"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains."
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"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."
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"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"
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"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."
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"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."
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"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."
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"God made me and broke the mold."
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"The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school."

Grace Abbott, American Activist
Age, Education, Argument, Children
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"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet
Age, Balance, Individuality, Morals
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"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet
Age, Society, Ballads, Nothing
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"The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet
Age, Poetry, Reason
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."

M. H. Abrams, American Critic
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"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline."

James Truslow Adams, American Historian
Age, Thought, Discipline, Value
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"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
Age, Men, Forget, Old
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher
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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet
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