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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
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The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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