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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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 great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
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
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right

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