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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ↗

— John Keats

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. ↗

— John Keats

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. ↗

— John Keats

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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen. ↗

— John Keats

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Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. ↗

— John Keegan

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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. ↗

— John Keegan

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I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books. ↗

— John Keegan

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I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper. ↗

— John Keegan

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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. ↗

— John Keegan

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Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed? ↗

— John Keegan

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