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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

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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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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself

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