“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
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