Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated.
Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.
