December 2009
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In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
– Albert Camus, The Plague
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A duty few men are fit for, but you were born for.
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She who sinks under real disappointment lacks philosophy; but she who sinks...
– Reveries of a Bachelor
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There, Watson! What do you think of pure reason and its fruit? If the...
– Sherlock Holmes
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And then the various forms He cast
Gross organs first and finer last;
No one...
– G.J.
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Some choice excerpts from The Elements of Style's...
Each and every one. Pitchman’s jargon. Avoid, except in dialogue.
Enormity. Use only in the sense of “monstrous wickedness.” Misleading, if not wrong, when used to express bigness.
Flammable. An oddity, chiefly useful in saving lives. The common word meaning “combustible” is inflammable. But some people are thrown off by the in- and think inflammable means...
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