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Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
That blessed word Mesopotamia.
That blessed word Mesopotamia.
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove?
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove?
'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, read more
'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, in anything,
But so much money as 't will bring?
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in
due season, how good read more
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in
due season, how good is it!
What advice you give, be short.
[Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]
What advice you give, be short.
[Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]
