Pierce Mason

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“But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.”
—Jackie Mason (b. 1931)