I know, if anyone does — all research workers know — how mu… - Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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I know, if anyone does — all research workers know — how much is missed that really matters because reports have to be written in officialese. They have to be, because a lot of us can't take anything seriously unless you make it dull for them.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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About Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (July 10, 1875 – March 30, 1956) was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early 20th century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.

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Pen Names: E.(Edmund) Clerihew

Alternative Names: E. C. Bentley

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John Stuart Mill,
By a mighty effort of will,
Overcame his natural bonhomie
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Swore not at all.
Mr Chapman's yea was yea,
And Mr Hall's nay was nay.

I can only say that you must have totally renounced all trust in the operations of the human reason; an attitude which, while it is bad Christianity and also infernal nonsense, is oddly enough bad Positivism too, unless I misunderstand that system.

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