Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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