Odysseus1479

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DITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Æacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering its mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. […] ” — Ambrose Bierce

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n old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. ” — Oscar Wilde

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he interiorization of the technology of the phonetic alphabet translates man from the magical world of the ear to the neutral visual world. ” — Marshall McLuhan

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 slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning. ” — Aleister Crowley