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“Requited love is only a pleasing symmetry, and symmetry is a kind of justice.”
― The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
― The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
“Most people can improvise in unrhymed dactyls for hours. It's just that you lose all your friends if you do.”
― The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
― The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
“Above all, I hope I have dispelled the bleak and imbecilic idea that the aim of writing is to express yourself clearly in plain, simple English using as few words as possible. This is a fiction, a fib, a fallacy, a fantasy, and a falsehood. To write for mere utility is as foolish as to dress for mere utility. ... Clothes and language can be things of beauty, I would no more write without art because I didn't need to than I would wander outdoors naked just because it was warm enough.”
― The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
― The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
“For though one antithesis is grand, a long list of antitheses is divine and is technically known as a progressio. It was a favorite of God and Dickens”
― The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
― The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
“A calling isn’t something new and shiny. Often it’s something old and predictable, a familiar face that’s easily taken for granted, an old habit or hobby that comes back into our lives.”
― The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do
― The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do
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