Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.T. S. Eliot
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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Life is very long.
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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