“ He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. ”
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“ Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. ”
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“ I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle. ”
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“ Quotation … A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read… ”
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