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H. W. Fowler Quotes
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The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.
Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.
It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.
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A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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