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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

Ezra Pound

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround

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