Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom o

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. – Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm

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I believe the true function of age is memory. Im recording as fast as I can. – Rita Mae Brown

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