To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
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I am no book larnt man, but there is few who can beat me swapping horses or guessing at the weight of a bar. I have come here because my peopl...
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
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