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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

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The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

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Born: September 26, 1888

Died: January 4, 1965 (aged 76)

Bio: Thomas Stearns Eliot was a British, American-born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets". He immigrated to England in 1914 at age 25, settling, working and marrying there.

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