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Greediness of getting more deprives... the enjoyment of what it had got.
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return…
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What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
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...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most…
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Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects;…
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Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,…
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A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
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All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want…
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return…
— Thomas Sprat
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But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to,…
— Marisha Pessl
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Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.
— Laurence Sterne
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in…
— Laurence Sterne
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This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.
— William Vickrey
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Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write…
— Serge Schmemann
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Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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