“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― Dead Poets Society
― Dead Poets Society
“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.”
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“Now let us go, love, down the winding stair,
With fingers intertwined...”
― The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
With fingers intertwined...”
― The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
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