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Quotes About Straggling

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.
~ Thomas Paine, Common Sense
A rival politician once called Harding's verbiage "an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. Sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly, a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude.
~ Adam Hochschild
It is getting toward dinner time and people are straggling back to their rooms with that weary, dejected air which comes from earning a living honestly.
~ Henry Miller
Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.
~ Thomas Paine