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“Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Artists broken against her,
Astray, lost in the villages,
Mistrusted, spoken against,
Lovers of beauty, starved,
Thwarted with systems,
Helpless against the control;”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“It is time for dead languages to be quiet.”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)
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