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T. S. Eliot Quotes: When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
         

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.


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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.



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Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.



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