Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. - Charles Caleb Colton

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If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

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