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• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that Nothing is worth war is much worse....
• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that Nothing is worth war is much worse....
• God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Paracelsus, Part ii...
• Language is fossil poetry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "The Poe
• Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe.
  The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by the Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off....
• The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes.
  Let the reader catch his own breath. -- Elizabeth Clarkson Zwa...