Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only … - Jack Vance

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there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.

Jack Vance

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

Beauty, Bestows, Eye, Love Is, Said

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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

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Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

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While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

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What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

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there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.

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