In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving. - William Francis Henry King

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So many people get caught up in being a pro athlete and think they are better. I don't feel like I've ever changed or acted any differently because of the situation I'm in or that status I have.

William Francis Henry King

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving.

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Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.

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. . . the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

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