A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public.
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There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.Mark Twain
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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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