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    The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Yabba dabba do!
    —William Denby Hanna (b. 1910)

    Four-room shack aspiring high
    With an arm of scrawny mast
    For the visions in the sky
    That go blindly pouring past.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)