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Quote by Ezra Pound
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rig

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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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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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound

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And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen

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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income. – Dave Barry

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You never know really what anyone thinks about you – thats why all my closest friends are ones Ive had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me. – Dominic Cooper

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A great many mens gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Nurses are the heart of healthcare. – Donna Wilk Cardillo

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