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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Ezra Pound

What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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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Energy Ideas Image
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
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 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
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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

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