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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose…
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which…
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Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
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Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but…
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a…
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Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your…
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Walt Whitman's poem, This Is What You Shall Do is another one that helps me burn bgithrer This is what you shall…
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence…
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Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in…
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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored,…
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Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.
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Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the…
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