Starting Essays With Excessive Use

Don't start essays with Webster's Dictionary defines excess. Don't do it, and also don't start anything with a private prejudice riff. A lot of the really attractive stories, unfortunately, are false because it's easier to make up a great story than to actually have one in life. I think we're still attached to the past, and have resisted attempts to make the language more logical.

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