Before 1800, the word loneliness was not particularly emotional: it simply connoted the state of being alone. The lexicographer Thomas Blount's Glossographia (1656) defined loneliness as "one; an oneliness, or loneliness, a single or singleness". Loneliness usually denoted places rather than people: a lonely castle, a lonely tree, or wandering "lonely as a cloud" in Wordsworth's poem of 1802.
Who would believe that despite all the social media outlets and the Internet, Loneliness is the greatest malady of modern life ?
BARCELONA -- When city officials decided they had to act to reduceunacceptably high levels of noise and air pollution, they reached aninescapable conclusion: Get rid of the cars.
Many people look down on those who have a different colored skin .
They will have nothing to do with those people.
Talking to them or shaking hands with them is unthinkable.
BUT they let their lousy pets lick all over their face.
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