I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them.
タグ: talent, parents, mind, children

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Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.
タグ: yesterday, past, tomorrow, today
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
タグ: seldom, translation, true, art
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
タグ: own, who, born, man
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
タグ: old, old-age, age, heart
Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?
タグ: certainly, also, unconventional, conservatism, values
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