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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too,…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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The grammarians are arguing.
— Horace
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Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
— Herman Melville
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
— Michel Foucault
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Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
— Horace
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Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are…
— Herbert Simon
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Caesar is not above the grammarians.
— Tiberius
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Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
— Remy de Gourmont
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The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do…
— H. L. Mencken
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When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians…
— Nizar Qabbani
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