Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be 2.5K
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do 2.5K
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. 757
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. 723
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying ‘flee at once – all is discovered.’ They all left town immediately. 781
