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- To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
- The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
- Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader
- A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
- Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
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