Nobody who has not written comic strips can really understand the phrase, economy of words. It's like trying to write Paradise Lost in haiku.
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- It is a man's duty to have books.
- A certain freshness of spirit
- The contents of someone's bookcase . . .
- Let every man, if possible, gather some good books...
- I quite forgot what Bismarck said
- Pippa's Song
- 500 million books can't all be wrong
- Usage evolves itself little disturbed by their lik...
- It is by the imagination only
- My library was dukedom large enough
- Truth and politicians
- Dr. Johnson on reading
- Excellence and ennui
- The Leak in the Dike
- Any movement that deprecates facts . . .
- Work
- Policy-based evidence-making
- The final and great remaining question
- Spain was flooded with gold
- Just because the world accumulated enough people
- The loss of serendipity
- Any individual mind is the product of a community ...
- The knowledge must be of value to others
- A Paralyzing Fear
- It's harder to be kind than clever
- How language affects self-regulation
- Girls too can read . . .
- Eighteen were for burglary and eighteen for forgery
- To the extent of ultimate boredom
- Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages
- What's that? Distinguo?
- An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can...
- Ten sentences
- Autism In The Family
- We are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?
- Whoosing noise
- A clamorous, perpetual-forward-motion machine
- All having remains no less a preparation for loss
- At the very least you need a beer
- Walt again
- The Aristotelian Principle Revisited
- Got that right
- A minimal level of information is possessed by any...
- Exchange is to cultural evolution as sex is to bio...
- Selection among ideas
- At some point, human intelligence became collectiv...
- like trying to write Paradise Lost in haiku
- There is always a moment in childhood . . .
- You can't write it out, can you?
- In Defence of Rubbish
- Precarious Existence
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- Charles
- A family man, a management consultant, a book seller and an avid reader. Committed to helping children become avid readers in turn. The great chain of reading always needs renewing.
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