I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.
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What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
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One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
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About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.
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