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It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.

– Raymond ChandlerRate it:

It is a matter of perspective, no matter how long you are active. Making an ample production at end, is what we all strive for at hand.

– AshimaRate it:

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

– Charles Dickens, Bleak HouseRate it:

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

– James Fenimore CooperRate it:

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

– Johann von GoetheRate it:

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

– Mark TwainRate it:

It is a mistake to assume that a man is worth a lot of money just because he has it.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

It is a mistake to be born — another to live — and a third to die.

– Letitia Elizabeth LandonRate it:

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

– George SandRate it:

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

– Marcel ProustRate it:

It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.

– Archbishop William Temple, 1955Rate it:

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

– Samuel SmilesRate it:

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

– Samuel SmilesRate it:

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

– Douglas AdamsRate it:

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

– Winston ChurchillRate it:

It is a mockery of system and shame for every learned person if someone with fake degree or unknown academic qualification gives study tips to students or speeches on an education policy.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

– Samuel JohnsonRate it:

It is a much more sweet, wonderful, happiest, luckiest, and warmest celebration when your true life companion and soul mate is with you than you alone.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

– Roger ZelaznyRate it:

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

– Arnold J. ToynbeeRate it:

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

– Author UnknownRate it:

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.

– Johann Kaspar LavaterRate it:

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

– Sir Arthur EddingtonRate it:

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

– AeschylusRate it:

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