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Not by empty protestations against the pleasures of the world, and cynical denunciations of its enjoyments, but by our superiority to its perishing greatness, to its fading beauties, and its impotent antagonisms, are we to express our redemption from its power.
George. C. Lorimer, p. 621. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)) | ||