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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs…
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... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the…
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Grammar is the analysis of language.
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human…
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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often…
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
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When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in…
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So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way…
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Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason…
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Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer…
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If you look it up on the Internet, it is cancer...They refer to it as noninvasive cancer.
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