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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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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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