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One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw

Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
- Robert Frost

Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
- Winston Churchill

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
- William Shakespeare

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
- Henry David Thoreau

Ezra Pound Quotes and Quotations

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Literature is news that stays news.

If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

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Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

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