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The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, Outrι (daring) 1 year before its time, Smart, Dowdy 1 year after its time, Hideous 10 years after its time, Ridiculous 20 years after its time, Amusing 30 years after its time, Quaint 50 years after its time, Charming 70 years after its time, Romantic 100 years after its time, Beautiful 150 years after its time.
(James Laver (1899-1975), British art critic, author. Taste and Fashion, ch. 18 (1937).
"The erogenous zone," Laver wrote, "is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.")
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The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,
wonderful: I'm surprised half the time:
(Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Cut the Grass (l. 1-2). . .
Harper Anthology of Poetry, The. John Frederick Nims, ed. (1981) Harper & Row.)
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For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.
(Thomas Hobbes (1579-1688), British philosopher. Leviathan, ch. 13 (1651).)
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For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.
(Thomas Hobbes (1579-1688), British philosopher. Leviathan, ch. 13 (1651).)
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Grief thief of time crawls off....
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Grief thief of time.")
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Grief thief of time crawls off....
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Grief thief of time.")
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all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
"O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. As I Walked Out One Evening (l. 21-24). . .
Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,—the eternal laws!
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, August 10, 1849, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 173, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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