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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.

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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.

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