"I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another"

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John Ashbery

#Ridiculous Quotes

“The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.”
“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.”
“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.329, A&C Black
“Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our fishing industries, the laying of oceanic cables, the proper construction of harbor-works, oceanic commerce and navigation, as well as long-range weather forecasting, are all dependent on an understanding of the ocean.”
“For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.”
“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”
“Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.”
“Today is the best day I could ever have.”

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