For all a rhetorician's rules teach nothing but to name his tools.
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Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak That Latin was no more difficile Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle.Samuel Butler
He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily
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To do great work a man must be very idle As well as very industrious.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
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You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.
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