“Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.” FirstsAgeDiesThreeThirdsPrivilegeVanitySuperiorityAristocracyDegenerates Author:Bill Vaughan
“Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?” ShouldAgeDiesStrangePoetEternalOrdinaryPrivilegeThank GodUglinessMysticEphemeral Author:Florence Earle Coates
“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!” HumansDiesFallHuman BeingsImagineYouthMiseryPrivilegePainfulEnjoymentPerpetualSolitaryDecaySincerelyDeliveranceInsufferable Author:James Sharp