Thousand Knives

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“Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)