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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself

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