"Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical."
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"Recognize that everyone suffers in their own life, even if you don't see it; even if you think they've got it easy."
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"When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather"
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"How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!"
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"All difficulties are easy when they are known."
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"It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut."
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"The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains."
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"It's very easy to not know the stuff that you should know about the patient when you're seeing them. It's much easier with an electronic system to find them, because it's all right there and it should be current."
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"It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things."
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"I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy."
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"All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles."
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"Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?"
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"It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears."
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"I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time."
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"Making things easy is hard."
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"A great teacher makes hard things easy."
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"There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly."
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"There is the easy way and there is my way."
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"Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid."
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"Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is."
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