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The arts babblative and scribblative.

— Robert Southey

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  1. The Satanic school.
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  3. Agreed to differ.
  4. And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just righ…
  5. Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust.
  6. Somebody has been sitting in my chair!
  7. My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends…
  8. It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green…

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  • criticism
  • noise
  • speech
  • value
  • writing

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