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Letter "C" » compositions
«Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
arts, composition, compositions, habits, original, originals, resolved, unformed, unprovided with, unskilled
«The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.»
Author: Paul Klee
(Artist)
| Keywords:
compositions, mastering, musical, musicals, paintings, prerequisite, sculptures, tragedies
«Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Taxation
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«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.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«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.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
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accretion, accretions, compacted, composition, compositions, dialect, dialects, English language, freely, range, the English, viewed
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