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People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

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. . . the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

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The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

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When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.

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In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.

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There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.

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When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

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