"I would never use a long word,..." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
“Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.”
“Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.”
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“Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.”
“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.”
“Language always gives you away.”