Jacques Barzun Quotes and Quotations
Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball. Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art. The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. "Plain English" - everybody loves it, demands it - from the other fellow.
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