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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
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
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
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
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing

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