“ Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ”
- De Witt Clinton- Copy
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“ The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920 — the same year women won the vote. ”
- Susan Faludi- Copy
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“ I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here. ”
- Clay Aiken- Copy
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“ The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it. ”
- Sarah Caldwell- Copy
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“ Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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