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"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."

"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."

"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."

"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
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"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."

"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."

"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."

"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."

"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."

"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."

"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
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