Lafcadio Hearn said this quote

“ Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio. ”

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The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

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The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker.

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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

~ Lafcadio Hearn