All Quotes By Tag: Euphemism
“When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb, ‘to pass away’ always sounds to me as if someone just drifted through the wallpaper. No, my mother did not pass away. She definitely died.”
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“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”
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“Don’t ever call me mad, Mycroft. I’m not mad. I’m just … well, differently moraled, that’s all.”
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“How is it possible to have a civil war?”
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