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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Ezra Pound

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
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 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
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
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation

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