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“Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.” — from a writer who is funny, knows audiences, and intimately knows progressivism.
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Earnestness welcome, this is like a mini-writing lesson and very much appreciated!
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“Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.” — from a writer who is funny, knows audiences, and intimately knows progressivism.subpatreQuote
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Earnestness and honesty seemed to mark her style far more than slick political chicanery.
Planning to Turn Rahm Emanuel’s Seat Red - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009
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Earnestness, using Promises and Threatnings, 'till at last my
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This is a preliminary finding only, and further funding is required, but there is no doubt that the Chinese Earnestness Index is extremely high.
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Which I am sure I did with more Earnestness than ever I did for my own
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Earnestness, within the Bounds of Humility and Respect, begg'd her Majesty to believe the Protestation she came to make of her Innocence.
Exilius 2008
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Which I am sure I did with more Earnestness than ever I did for my own
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“Earnestness was his greatest danger, but if he did not quite overcome it (as indeed who can? it is the last enemy that shall be subdued), he managed to veil it with a fair amount of success.”
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