Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

Quote by Joseph Priestley

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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more...

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more...

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of...

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of...

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel...

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel...

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread...

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread...

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find...

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find...

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief...

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief...

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find...

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find...

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread...

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread...

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my...

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my...

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all...

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all...

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Old age is no place for sissies.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I...

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I...

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.