The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Clifton Fadiman
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  3. Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

  4. Reading to small children is a specialty.

  5. One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

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