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compositions

«Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.»
«The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.»
«Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.»
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
«Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.»