Quote by Ezra Pound
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of transla

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

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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound

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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. – Jean Paul

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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. – Charlotte Bronte

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Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work. – Mitch Daniels

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