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" There is no method but to be very intelligent. "
T. S. Eliot
Very
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Intelligence
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" And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. "
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" Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. "
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" A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. "
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" The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. "
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" We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. "
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" I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. "
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" So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. "
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" I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. "
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" The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. "
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" If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.' "
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Mother
" The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. "
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Put
Work
" People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. "
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People
Understand
" I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. "
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Am
Literature
" Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. "
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" Business today consists in persuading crowds. "
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Business
Crowds
" For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. "
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Know
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Praise
Our
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You
Without
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Our
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