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Anthony Burgess quote: "To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the..."

To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

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Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office. Jonathan Swift