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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
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
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
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
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom

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