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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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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
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
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 curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself

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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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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