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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
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
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
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 natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas

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