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" Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think. "
Stuff
Drink
Hurts
" And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. "
God
Ways
Than
" Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. "
Understanding
Perfect
Meaning
" Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "
Thoughts
Morning
Experience
" Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. "
Good
Great
Opinions
" Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. "
Think
Lie
Life
" If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "
Skin
Act
Line
" I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. "
Find
Asylum
Sense
" In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. "
Seems
American
Cunning
" Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. "
God
Man
More
" Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. "
Ability
Content
Nature
" Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. "
Ale
Your
Sky
" That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. "
Happy
See
I See
" The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. "
Criticism
Average
Conservative
" The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. "
Build
Delusions
Cheap
" The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me. "
Will
God
Keep
" The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. "
Sky
Proud
Drink
" Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. "
Tell
World
Hell
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