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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-10-16 · 16:19 UTC

You know the insolence of Antonius; you know his friends, you know his whole household. To be slaves to lustful, wanton, debauched, profligate, drunken gamblers, is the extremity of misery combined with the extremity of infamy.

[Nostis insolentiam Antoni, nostis amicos, nostis totam domum. libidinosis, petulantibus, impuris, impudicis, aleatoribus, ebriis servire, ea summa miseria est summo dedecore coniuncta.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 3, ch. 14 / sec. 35 (2.14/3.35.1) (44-12-20 BC) [tr. Yonge (1903)]

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John Griogair Bell @[email protected] · 2025-08-19 · 13:27 UTC

“The horror!” Brighton continued to lament. “The indignity! The unfairness of life! Why? Why, goddess, why?”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/08/19/the-horror-brighton-continued-to-lament-the-indignity-the-unfairness-of-life-why-why-goddess-why/

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-03-21 · 17:32 UTC

A quotation from Orwell

A thing is funny when — in some way that is not actually offensive or frightening — it upsets the established order. Every joke is a tiny revolution. If you had to define humour in a single phrase, you might define it as dignity sitting on a tin-tack. Whatever destroys dignity, and brings down the mighty from their seats, preferably with a bump, is funny. And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-07-28), “Funny, But Not Vulgar,” Leader Magazine

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