"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."
― Mark Twain
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Time
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- "Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life."― Ralph Ransom
- "All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."― Ernest Hemingway