To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches pai…

H. L. Mencken
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. ✨ H.L. Mencken (1917). A book of prefaces, p.85, Рипол Классик
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