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“Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.”
― W.H. Auden

tags: goodness, humorous, service

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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

tags: language, poetry, words

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“Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.”
― W.H. Auden

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“Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.”
― W.H. Auden

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“All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ”
― W. H. Auden

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