"The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing."

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Source : Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.454

Joseph Addison

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“But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.”
“What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? Itâ€™s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.”

Source : "New Life, No Instructions". Book by Gail Caldwell, wnpr.org. April 2014.
“It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.”
“The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be.”
“For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.”
“I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.”
“If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.”
“Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.”

Source : Rupert Murdoch's address to the Edinburgh Television Festival, 1989.

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