Mark Twain (bless his Connecticut Yankee heart) offered some very fine advice that took me a lifetime to hear.
Substitute damn every time you’re inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain (bless his Connecticut Yankee heart) offered some very fine advice that took me a lifetime to hear.
Substitute damn every time you’re inclined to write very; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.
- Louis Brandeis
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
- Chinese Proverb
Wow, ain’t that the truth. A great quote from Twain, and one I had never heard before. Nice!
We have a wonderful language just chock full of superlatives ready for use, but the tendency to modify them is ubiquitous. As in, for example, “isn’t that a little bit amazing?” Drives me a little nuts. Ouch. 😀
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Talkers in particular seem no longer to understand superlatives or numerical qualifiers -er, -est or few v. less .. .
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Amen. Ditto “really”.
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Makes me wonder how many great quotes are from Twain!
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Frank – there are website devoted to his famous quotes. I have quite a few of them on my own quotes page. Love the guy.
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Damn nice quote!
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Yeah, very damn nice mac 😆
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And the same applies to “just” and “actually”. ARGH!
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Uh-huh. They’re right up there. Let’s add ‘literally’.
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