Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style. β¨ Mark Twain (1992). Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890
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