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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
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
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself

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