"He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do."

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Source : 'To all gentlemen and yeomen of England' in 'Toxophilus' (1545)

Roger Ascham

#Wise Quotes #Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“Music is what feelings sound like out loud.”
“Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.”
“Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.”
“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

Source : Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.45, University of Chicago Press
“Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.”
“Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.”

Source : "Comedian Maria Bamford on her family" by Jarrett Bellini, www.cnn.com. June 17, 2011.
“moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.”
“I keep thinking Naruto... That one of these days your going to finally grow up!”

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