Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
A. E. HOUSMANI do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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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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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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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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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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