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Wonderful man! I long to get drunk with
him.
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-Lord Byron about Sir Walter Scott
Diary entry, 5 January 1821
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I am seldom interested in what he [Ezra
Pound] is saying, but only in the way he says it.
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-T.S. Eliot
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*I hate as I hate Hell's
own gate that weakness that makes a poor man into a flatterer.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. XIV : Hospitality in the Forest, 187-188
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I think this is the most extraordinary
collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered
together at the White House--with the possible exception of when Thomas
Jefferson dined here alone.
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-John F. Kennedy, to his Nobel Prize winning
guests
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*Petrarch thought Cicero
so wonderful that he had to wonder at those who did not wonder at him.
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-Lewis W. Spitz
The Renaissance and Reformation Movements, Revised Edition, Vol. I: The
Renaissance, 1971
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