Base Form Ends

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    And all the popular statesmen say
    That purity built up the State
    And after kept it from decay;
    Admonish us to cling to that
    And let all base ambition be,
    For intellect would make us proud....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones
    Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly
    Because it dissolves in water.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    In the case of pirates, say, I would like to know whether that profession of theirs has any peculiar glory about it. It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)