Diminutive One Quotes by William Safire

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• Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.
• Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
• Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
• The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
• After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine;…
• Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
• It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
• No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet....
• Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.
• Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'
• Our rogue President, after selling face time...
• Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

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