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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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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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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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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