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Place·Buckinghamshire✕clear

All's fair in love and war.

Frank E. Smedley

1850

★ 5.3

Philosophical literature

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

Roger Scruton

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction · 2011

★ 5.2

Political literature · Philosophical literature

Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.

Roger Scruton

How to Be a Conservative · 2014

★ 5.1

Novel

Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures · 1990

★ 3.5

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old; both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Edmund Waller

On the Divine Poems · 1686

★ 1.8

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