I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.Irving Layton
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
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Since I no longer expectanything from mankind exceptmadness,meanness, and mendacityegotism,cowardice,andself-delusion, I have stoppedbeing amisanthrope.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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