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Sinclair Lewis Novelist
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"Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers."

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J. Robbins Author
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"It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead."

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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to originate in, and depend upon the care, or the inattention, of the Officers belonging to them."

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