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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
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W. H. Auden
Age: 66 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 21
Died: 1973
Died: September 28
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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.
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The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
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The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
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