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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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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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
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
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
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
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom

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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