Semantically, taste is rich and confusing, its etymology as odd and interesting as that of "style." But while style--deriving from
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An old French sentence says, "God works in moments,"M"En peu d'heure Dieu labeure." We ask for long life, but 't is deep life, or
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The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is an
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We have heard that a few days after this, when the Provincetown Bank was robbed, speedy emissaries from Provincetown made particul
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But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for
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Julia: What could he have done when it was one against three?
Old Horace: He should have died!
Old Horace: He should have died!
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the Fr
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vien
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Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of wo
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