English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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The essayist ... can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.E. B. White
DEMOCRACY n The recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Commuter one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.
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