"The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying
runs, old as the hills--and as immortal. Questionless, there was many a
serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs
be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym;
and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers
its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style." Some
few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims
nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful
happenings."

James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour
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