“Nuance: for best results apply with sledge hammer.” — Tom Heehler, The Well-Spoken Thesaurus
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“Edukashun iz a good thing generally, but most pholks eddukate their prejudices.” — Josh Billings, Everybody’s Friend
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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” — John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
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“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.” — George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
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“The world does so well without me, that I am moved to wish that I could do equally well without the world.” — Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks
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“A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.” — Andrew Lang, The Library
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“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.” — Alfred North Whitehead, “Harvard: The Future,” The Atlantic Monthly, September 1936
