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"The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."
". . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest."
"I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau."
"The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!"
