"If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end."
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"Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month's labor in the farmer's almanac, to restore our tone and spirits."
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"Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing."
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"One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him."
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"Free enterprise democracy has proven the best system by far for maximizing freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Dictatorship, Soviet style communism, and hereditary aristocracy have proven about the worst environments for people to achieve all three of these goals."
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"Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans."
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"The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills."
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"What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out."
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"You can't throw too much style into a miracle."
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"I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing."
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"To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all."
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"My style of writing is very diffrent from yours."
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"What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things."
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"For a poet, style is the only morality."
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"The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style."
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"Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me."
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"I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that."
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"The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind."
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"'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it."
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"In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure."
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