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Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.
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Life is not a thing of knowing only — nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
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We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.
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Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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January 27, 1872
Died:
August 18, 1961
(aged 89)
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