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Title: A Modest Proposal        For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or cou...

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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. Women are made to be loved, not to be understood. It is absurd to have...

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PEOPLE often talk as if there was an opposition between what is beautiful and what is useful. There is no opposition to beauty except ...

IN my last lecture I gave you something of the history of Art in England. I sought to trace the influence of the French Revolution upo...

AMONG the many debts which we owe to the supreme aesthetic faculty of Goethe is that he was the first to teach us to define beauty in ...

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In many of the somewhat violent attacks that have recently been made on that splendour of mounting which now characterises our Shakesp...

The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us fr...

It has constantly been made a subject of reproach against artists and men of letters that they are lacking in wholeness and completene...

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. . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by  seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.  W...

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