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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very';

otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Charles Dickens

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.
Henry Chadwick

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
Jack Levine

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Eric Hoffer

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