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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Daily Dose

From The Lost Beauties of the English Language, by Charles Mackay

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"Other languages are dainty in the materials of their increment; but English is, like man himself, omnivorous.  Nothing comes amiss to the hungry palate."

From The Introduction