Preferred Judging Function

Famous quotes containing the words preferred, judging and/or function:

    “You preferred it to the usual thing:
    One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
    One average mind—with one thought less, each year.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “The sure way of judging whether our first thoughts are judicious, is to sleep on them. If they appear of the same force the next morning as they did over night, and if good nature ratifies what good sense approves, we may be pretty sure we are in the right.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)