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...begrudge my loneliness, not my persecution. But you have taken my lyre and broken it, and spit on the dead centuries, and rendered art into pornography. For what it availeth, I can do naught but curse...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Cambridge Scene | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

...learning, deplore that there should be in this, the most deeply learned of institutions, those for whom not the joy of much travelling in the realms of books is the greatest good, but rather the vanities of the world as found in the neighborhood of Machu Picchu. But it availeth us naught. They are here and their number, is legion, these youths who would make of this great university a limbo of varieties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/13/1922 | See Source »

...indeed, even as it availeth not to rail at the unseeing, so it bespeaketh a mind of little spaciousness in him who will not bestir himself in the task of enlightenment. If the discourse of the learned professor interesteth not the common student it is not the latter who is alogether at fault. Perchance the lecture is indeed stupid, or perchance the student has not ever been awakened to the significance of learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/13/1922 | See Source »

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