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«History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.»
Author: Henry Steele Commager
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assert, confidently, history of art, history of music, meaner, moral philosophy, noble-minded, noblest, poorer, richness, solace, solaced, solaces
«There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.»
Author: Jane Jacobs
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dishonest, disorder, ignoring, mask, meaner, outright, pretended, served, struggling, suppressing, ugliness
«Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.»
«True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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