I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
A. E. HOUSMANSome men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; ‘Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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