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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
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
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public

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