"I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?"

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Source : Gary Saul Morson (2011). “The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture”, p.4, Yale University Press

Gary Saul Morson

#Sound Quotes #Wonder Quotes #Quotations Quotes

“What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.”
“I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.”
“Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one.”

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“Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”

Source : Hisham Matar (2007). “In the Country of Men”, p.167, Penguin UK
“A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.”
“We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in.”
“Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a clichÃ©, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.”
“In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.”

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