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— Samuel Johnson"In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness."
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It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it exceed the pleasure of being able to tell others what to do. There is but one tick on the accuracy scale between 'optimism' and 'denial.'
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