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The man who can talkwell and to the point need never fear to go idle. _Grief_
is frequently loud and violent, _sorrow_ is always quietand retiring. In other
fields of endeavor poverty has been the spur to action. Imitate the best
writers in their _style_, but not intheir exact words.
This form is now nearly
obsolete, the plural_you_ being almost universally used.
This holds goodin all
situations as well as with pronouns. Remember In lifes earnest battle they only
prevail Who daily march onward and never say fail.
A person may be so
ornamental that he is valueless from anyother standpoint.
Wheneveryou meet a
strange word note it down until you discover its meaning anduse. Something
cannot be manufactured out of nothing.
Its all Greek to me is traceable to the
play of _Julius Caesar_. It is words and their placing that count on almost all
occasions.
_An apple_, _an orange_, _an heir_, _anhonor_, etc.
You can,
however, listen to the charm of the living. A person may be so ornamental that
he is valueless from anyother standpoint. ThusHis vocation was the law, his
avocation, farming.
To say that he is very nice would be too weak a way to
express heradmiration. We can walk on _either_ side of the street. Listen to
the best conversationalists and howthey express themselves.
Even the most
flatulent of yellow sheets no longertolerate it in their columns.
The objective
form of the Relative should be always used, inconnection with a
preposition.
After his installation speech, in going through the halls, he met
astudent seemingly deep in study. Hard and fast rules, however, can never make
awriter or author. _Fire_ is much better than _conflagration_. Familiar themes
are always the best forthe beginner.
THESE--THOSEDont say, _These kind; those
sort_.
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