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"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
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"There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three."

"I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."

"Words make known. But we live in the unknown."

"There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth."

"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."

"Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic."

"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."

"The truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

"When your speaking style is clear, confident, and concise, your listeners will perceive you as such."
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"She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away."

"As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom."

"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."

"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him."

"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."

"While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern."

"I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all."
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