suspicious quotes

   I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

-Sandburg, Carl
c.1940  On receiving nearly a dozen honorary doctorates for his biography of Lincoln. Quoted in The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.

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