I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.

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We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true.

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Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.

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When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.

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Man has his will - but woman has her way.

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Don't be consistent but be simply true.

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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

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