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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
The work of Leslie is particularly confusing.
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), III, Reading...
The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 208...
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite.
They are nothing of the sort. What the wo...
The world, as we know it, has come to an end!!
The world began on the twenty-third of October in four thousand four B.
C., at 9:00 in the morning precisely. -- Bishop Ushe...
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss, "Tristes Tropiques", 1955...
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. -- William McFee

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