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"The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by it's author's explanations it never should have been published, and if the poem cannot be improved by its author's explanations the explanations are scarcely worth reading." »Archibald MacLeish
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"Their plans were improved with the best advice." »J. R. R.Tolkien, The Hobbit
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"Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved." »Ann Douglas
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"He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death" »H.H. Munro (Saki)
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""New and improved actually means that the Old Stuff actually Sucked!"" »Tom Zegan
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"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." »Hector Hugh Munro
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"Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard." »H. L. Mencken
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"Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing." »John Locke
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"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." »Unknown
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"True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle." »Hugh Blair
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"The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?" »Charles Darwin
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"The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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