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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious

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