“Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Letter to a Young Clergyman http://www.online-literature.com/swift/religion-church-vol-one/7/ (January 9, 1720)
“The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.”
Source: Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.10, Springer
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