Wilson Follett Quotes
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
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I'm a better polemicist in prose.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."
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People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.
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Fate. She'd never been a big beliver in things like that, had always believed that solid decisions and hard work were what paid off. And they had. But, really, it was getting to the point where it felt like the universe was screaming at her to pay attention!
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Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
