No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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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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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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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