“ Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. ”
- Eliza Farnham- Copy
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“ Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
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“ I was an able-seaman, a deck hand. As I say, it's the way to see the world and get paid for it. ”
- David Walker- Copy
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“ FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous — almost of pedantic — veracity, that the experienced angler is seen. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
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