#solemnity

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

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Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. ↗

— Russell Baker

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