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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Ezra Pound

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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