Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Cynicism is merely the art of seeing things as they are instead of as they ought to be.
Journalists excuse themselves in private for what they write against you in public.
As soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the pavingstone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat.
The art of viciousness is a lot worse than the absense of art itself.
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.