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The Tea Ceremony Requires Years Of Training And Practice ... Yet The Whole Of This Art, As To Its Detail, Signifies No More Than The Making And Serving Of A Cup Of Tea. The Supremely Important Matter Is That The Act Be Performed In The Most Perfect, Most Polite, Most Graceful, Most Charming Manner Possible.

I Often Imagine That The Longer He Studies English Literature The More The Japanese Student Must Be Astonished At The Extraordinary Predominance Given To The Passion Of Love Both In Fiction And In Poetry.

Of Course, The Simple Explanation Of The Fact Is That Marriage Is The Most Important Act Of Man's Life In Europe Or America, And That Everything Depends Upon It.

It Is No Exaggeration To Say That The English Bible Is, Next To Shakespeare, The Greatest Work In English Literature, And That It Will Have Much More Influence Than Even Shakespeare Upon The Written And Spoken Language Of The English Race.

In Order To Comprehend The Beauty Of A Japanese Garden, It Is Necessary To Understand - Or At Least To Learn To Understand - The Beauty Of Stone.