Samuel McChord Crothers (June 7, 1857–November 1927) was an American Unitarian minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist.
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.
Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
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Fred Frith
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James R. Clapper
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Jerry Falwell, Jr.
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Grace Napolitano