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"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true" »Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything." »Evelyn Waugh
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"plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do." »Katharine Hepburn
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"To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price." »Amelia Earhart
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"Its not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us." »Real Live Preacher
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"If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated." »Newt Gingrich
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"Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind." »Stephen Vincent Benet
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"The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people." »Phil Gramm
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"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible." »Jean Kerr
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"It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness." »Jerry Garcia
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"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." »Henry David Thoreau
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"If you cry 'Forward' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite" »Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one." »John Ruskin
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"No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess." »I Ching
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"Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety." »Tryon Edwards
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"Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety." »Tryon Edwards
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"plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either." »A. W. Tozer
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"What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again Two hundred more." »Samuel Butler
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"Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures." »Henry Anatole Grunwald
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"Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness." »Robertson Davies
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"Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, I thought within myself, I all things knew; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit, Like some disease, passed off; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am." »Bhartrihari
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"At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid." »Homer
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"There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts." »Christine Lavin
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"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language." »William Osler
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