Glance is the enemy of vision.
EZRA POUNDAnyone 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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Wars are made to make debt.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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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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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Either move or be moved.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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