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QUOTATION:Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
ATTRIBUTION:Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), U.S. author. Death in the Afternoon, ch. 7 (1932).
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