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Guy Fawkes story

Guy Fawkes story and the Gunpowder plot, an easy article for students of English that explains the origin of the story with its celebrations and customs. A desperate disease requires a dangerous …

The essence of aphorisms

The essence of aphorisms, an article that explains the laws of aphorism by James Geary with an introduction of Carl William Brown on this kind of literary and philosophical original genre. The …

Quotes on the English Language

Quotes on the English Language, aphorisms, quotations, thoughts and ideas by great authors and writers on the English language by English-culture.com We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if …

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Some people are right, you don't need to be educated to vegetate. Carl William Brown

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes and aphorisms on love

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Short dictionary of literary terms

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One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

To my muses. I like people who don't like things easily, if they dislike them, even better!
Carl William Brown

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Carl William Brown

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown