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"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
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"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
Experience
"Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
Resilience
"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
Poetry
"Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man."
God
"If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
Poetry
"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think."
Resilience
"I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word."
Sense
"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions."
Perception
"And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man."
God
"That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again."
Content
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