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“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him.” Genesis 37:19–20
Martin Luther • Faith Alone: A Daily Devotional
— Gustave Flaubert
Dylano | Essayful • Tweet
They were stern disquisitions, raining on our unappreciative heads the fruits of lifelong scholarship, excavating with dry precision the buried ironies of Swift and the unsuspected jests of Pope, which even then I continued not to suspect.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
Children must be very indulgent to the grown-ups.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • The Little Prince
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book’s quotable passages.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
magniloquent