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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. – A.E. Housman

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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out…. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. – A.E. Housman

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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. – A.E. Housman

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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. – Malcolm De Chazal

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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. – Calvin Coolidge

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