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Men expect too much, do too little. - Allen Tate

Men expect too much, do too little. – Allen Tate

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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. – Allen Tate

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Poetry
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Allen Tate
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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. – Allen Tate

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Failure
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Allen Tate
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. – Lewis Cass

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Doing things is not the same as getting things done. – Jared Silver, jaredsilver.name (@JaredSilver)

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He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. – John McPhee

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