A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

🔖 I think of it as it should have been, with its prolixities docked, its dullnesses enlivened, its fads eliminated, its truths multiplied. He had a nimbler wit, a better sense of proportion, and a more open mind, than his twelve-year-older partner ; and it is matter of regret that we had not, at a certain point, arranged our undertakings other­wise than we did.