The crown of literature is poetry.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
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