"MORAL: When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window."

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“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.”

“Whom are you?" he said, for he had been to night school.”

“MORAL: If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.”

“She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.”

“A Piker always has his entire Stock of Goods in the Show Window.”

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"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."

— Ayn Rand

Philosophy1905–1982

#ethics

"Mozart was the Shakespeare of music; and as long as the immortal bard is read, Mozart will live in the admiration of mankind. He has reached the passions through the ear as Shakspeare did through the …"

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music1756–1791

#love

"My dad has hated me for as long as I can remember. That's a pretty sweeping statement, and I know how phony it sounds. It sounds petulant and really fantastic, the kind of weapon kids always use when …"

— Stephen King

Literature1986

#time

"Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state."

— Mark Twain

Literature1835–1910

#science