Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.