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• I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if…
• A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
• Loneliness is a strange gift.
• There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will…
• In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally…
• A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the…
• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond…
• Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a…

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