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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
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
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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

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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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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