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• His maid was so well acquainted with this humor that no sooner had he prepared his paper to compose, and taken his violoncello, than the bottle and glass arrived, and was replenished from time to time: thus, without being ever absolutely intoxicated, he was usually in a state of elevation. —  The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Entire
• When offline, you'll still be able to read retrieved emails, compose, and search. —  TechBuzz
• Focusing less on aesthetics than the camera's quick ability to compose, the images extract the comic and ironic from the otherwise mundane by framing instances of the material world inelegantly confronting its natural counterpart, and vice versa. —  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
• While you--compose, is it not?--your brains, should you not wish to engage in privateerin'? —  Sonnie-Boy's People
• An intelligent critic ought, on the contrary, to seek out everything which least resembles the novels already written, and urge young authors as much as possible to try fresh paths All writers, Victor Hugo as much as M. Zola, have insistently claimed the absolute and incontrovertible right to compose--that is to say, to imagine or observe--in accordance with their individual conception of originality, and that is a special manner of thinking, seeing, understanding, and judging. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.

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