Intellectual
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none
Great intellects are skeptical
The intellectual power, through words and things,
Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
The Excursion
An intellectual hate is the worst.
The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work,
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
Perfection of the life, or of the work,
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933. The Choice
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