"Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge."

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William Zinsser

#Language Quotes #Scholarship Quotes #Fury Quotes

“Dad, Thanks for being my biggest fan, even when I strike-out.”
“A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.”
“I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar”
“Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!”
“What happens when you lose your heart's desire?”
“Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of a claim to be thought a good fencer.To my vision his merits have still seemed to dwindle,Since I have found him allied with the great Dr T[yndall]While I have, for my part, grown cockier and cockier,Since I found an ally in yourself, Mr L[ockyer]And am always, in consequence, thoroughly willin',To perform in the pages of Nature's M[acmillan].”
“We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.”
“Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]”

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