"Proper words in proper places make the true……" — Jonathan Swift
"Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style."
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- A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales…
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- It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
- Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out…
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