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"I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless."
"Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin."
"The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation."
"Suspicion is very often a useless pain."
"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow."
"There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved."
"Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle."
"Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma."
"L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion."
"Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression that they are useful."
"It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep."
"But we can't know better until knowing better is useless."
"You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave."
"There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself"
"Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know."
"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us."
"It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful."
"One grows out of pity when it's useless."
"The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth."
"Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless."
