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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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