Patient and erudite, but occasionally uppity, and proud of it.
If we note that things are notable, we need to note them. But do we need to note that we've noted them? Good writing is hard to do.
If we say something, then say something else which modifies the original thing, we don't usually need to say "however". I am a man. I am not a robot. is far better and clearer than I am a man; however, I am not a robot.
Reverence the cheese-like brain that feeds you with these trifling jollities.
Work as if you were living in the early days of a better nation.
Treason doth never prosper: but what's the reason? For if it doth prosper none dare call it treason.
