To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies — the man who searches painfully for the perfect word and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said — there is the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. | |
— Henry Louis Mencken | |
From: “A Book of Prefaces“ | |
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Archive for November 24th, 2014
An Ear Of Happy Accidents
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