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Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
Bergen Evans
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Bergen Evans
Age: 73 †
Born: 1904
Born: September 19
Died: 1978
Died: February 4
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Franklin
Ohio
Bergen Baldwin Evans
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Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
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It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
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