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In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma. – Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Liberation of Mankind, 1926

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Reader, Now I send thee like a Bee to gather honey out of flowers and weeds; every garden is furnished with either, and so is ours. Read and meditate; thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all and record after. – Henry Smith

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[A]ll great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren’t a little flower somebody sewed on. – Peggy Noonan

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