Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.F. L. Lucas
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
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