A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
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What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
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