A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

About Samuel McChord Crothers

Samuel McChord Crothers (June 7, 1857 in Oswego, Illinois–November 1927) was an American Unitarian minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist.

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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

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