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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Growing and learning and obeying the rules of their elders, or fighting against them, are not easy things to do.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Infancy is not what it is cracked up to be.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
The individual aspiration is always defeated of its perfect fruition and expression, but it is never lost; it passes into the conglomerate being of the race.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
'Tis evanescence that endures;
The loveliness that dies the soonest has the longest life.
The rainbow is a momentary thing,
The afterglows are ashes while we gaze.
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
For him who fain would teach the world
The world holds hate in fee—
For Socrates, the hemlock cup;
For Christ, Gethsemane.
Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
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