Infinite riches: gems from a lifetime of readingMcGraw-Hill, 1979 - 588 páginas Elizabeth I's last great speech, an account of Marco Polo's return to Venice, and writings by Mencken, Wilde, and Twain are among the selections included in a collection of excerpts that represents Rosten's lifelong love for the printed word |
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... words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use " Hemingway's prose, which has the tone and rhythm of liturgy, was developed at a ...
... words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use " Hemingway's prose, which has the tone and rhythm of liturgy, was developed at a ...
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... words are lineaments of my dearest and best; my mother's turn of phrase beats blessedly in my mind. In language I make the effigies of my enmity, and create the ikons I woo and kiss. In words, in whispering, stumbling words, in the ...
... words are lineaments of my dearest and best; my mother's turn of phrase beats blessedly in my mind. In language I make the effigies of my enmity, and create the ikons I woo and kiss. In words, in whispering, stumbling words, in the ...
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... words but the man whom we feel to be behind the words. — SAMUEL BUTLER, The Notebooks He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always . been greater than the ...
... words but the man whom we feel to be behind the words. — SAMUEL BUTLER, The Notebooks He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always . been greater than the ...
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A. J. P. TAYLOR ALBERT EINSTEIN American ARISTOTLE BAMBER GASCOIGNE beauty believe BENJAMIN BERTRAND RUSSELL Capitalism century Chinese Christian civilization Copyright court death democracy dream earth economic enemy England English Essays Europe everything excerpts existence experience eyes face fact faith feel freedom G. K. CHESTERTON GEORGE GEORGE MIKES H. L. MENCKEN hand happy head human ideas imagination JAMES Jews JOHN King knew LASSWELL Lenin LEONARD MOSLEY letter liberty Lincoln live look Lord MARK TWAIN means mind modern moral Napoleon nation nature never night palace passion peace person philosopher political reason religion revolution Roman sense sexual SIGMUND FREUD slave social society speech Stalin talk things THOMAS THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY thought tion truth turn Venice VOLTAIRE WINSTON CHURCHILL women words young
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Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |