759 Quotes About Style

  • Author Gilbert Murray
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    Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

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  • Author H. L. Mencken
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    It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

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  • Author Hanneli Mustaparta
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    I'm embracing the punk. There's so much punk style in everything we do and wear everyday; we just never have the chance to do it all the way.

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  • Author Karl Marx
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    The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

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