"The _sum total_ of the world's knowledge: 250 exabytes"

[Wilson Gray]

I wonder why this redundant term, an annoyance to prescriptivists
since I was in grade school During The War, has become immortal,
unkillable, whereas similarly-redundant terms of common occurrence in,
e.g. my native dialect, such as _dusk dark_ and _clay dirt_, are
unknown outside of the South.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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