Quote by Ezra Pound
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value d

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound

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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound

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Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? – Howard Nemerov

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. – Patrick Kavanagh

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. – Eric Hoffer

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. – G. W. F. Hegel

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God has entrusted me with myself. – Epictetus

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. – Mark Twain

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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. – Elbert Hubbard

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