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"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
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"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."
"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."
"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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