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As T.S. Eliot put it: ‘Immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal.’
Mark Forsyth • The Elements of Eloquence: How To Turn the Perfect English Phrase
The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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“Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.”
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
The process became somewhat circular. Vine told me that people took their common-place books to the theatre and to church, to ‘preserve the best lines’, and writers started to self-consciously create quotable texts with common-placing readers in mind – seventeenth-century soundbites. In due course, any such truism became known as a ‘commonplace’, a
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