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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.

Ezra Pound

Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree

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