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valetudinarian
«An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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feebleness, imprint, imprinted, imprints, valetudinarian