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9 quotesMan is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
Humankind
Thomas Carlyle
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
Justice
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
Vocabulary
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Elections
Mario Cuomo
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
Poetry and Poets
David Hare
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Enthusiasm
Samuel Johnson
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Murder
Vladimir Nabokov
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Poetry and Poets
Virginia Woolf
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun