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

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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
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
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
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
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth

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