Today it is prosperity that is externally ugly... we sit starving amidst our gold, the Midas of the Ages.
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When he understands, as few others do, something of his home that is funny, or sad, or tragic, or cruel, or beautiful, or true, he knows he must do so as a stranger.William Morris
The life before it,
Dost thou remember aught,
What terrors shivered o'er it
Born from the hell of thought?
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On his soul, Lord, have mercy.
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If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for I should answer A beautiful House and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for I should answer A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle.
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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Protect, detect, react and deter. For example, firewalls are only of any real use if you master them and take action when you notice something wrong.
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