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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

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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
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself

To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

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