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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

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