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As time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and past times and sometimes of as sad gravity as who say: a man for all seasons.
Robert Whittington
We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.
Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)
Terentianus Maurus
Forget your woes when you see your friend.
Priscian
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.
Henry Fowler
If there is method here, it is hard to discern it. Let it be repeated: the use of capitals is a matter not or rules but of taste; but consistency is at least not a mark of bad taste.
H. W. Fowler