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“Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.”

Firsts Art Values Please Taste Species Rejected Superficial Disdain Kitsch

Author:David Hume

“An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.”

Firsts Political Religious Please Affair Civil Rights Guarantees Amendments Minimum Unconditional First Amendment Public Affairs First Amendment Rights

Author:Hugo Black

“The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.”

Source: Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare

“Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.”

Thinking Firsts Long Life Is Women Please Aim Gender Educated Sincere Never Expect

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.”

Firsts Ends Circumstances Please Adversity Ease Distress Bent

Author:Jonathan Swift

“A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.”

Firsts Young Boys Journey Return Please Voyages Sailor Lad Navigation Please Me

Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals