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"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim."
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"Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act."
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"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim."

"All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days."

"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."

"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad."

"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street."

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
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