There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.
タグ: writers-and-writing

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What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
タグ: intellectual, human, finance, love
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
タグ: different, matter, colors, heart
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
タグ: us, like, money, marriage
A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
タグ: prevention, well, more, medicine
About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.
タグ: gentleman, education
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