Good phrases

Here is my list of phrases that I pick out from different books and other texts. These phrases I may use in my own writing later.

• I have some doubts here, for reasons I have already indicated 

• It's a tough call

• fall by the wayside 

• let me hasten to say 

• I’m saying nothing here which is not common knowledge 

• I want to call your attention to

• What is true of ____ holds for _____

• it seemed to be a theme that came up time and time again

• Not only are such people not worth your effort in talking, but they are usually not worth listening either. 

• If one seeks knowledge, it seems wiser to read books which offer to instruct, if there be such, than books which tell stories. 

• There is no error in reading a poem as if it were philosophy, or science as if it were poetry, so long as you know which you are doing at a given time and how to do it well. 

• …and that in turn is due to the fact that…

• if there is one thing I cannot abide it is a lack of discipline

• Well, I have no sooner finished persuading you that certain distinctions are worth observing, than I have to add: “But there are still more.” 

• I hope you will not walk out on me. 

• We need a scheme of classification which groups books with an eye to the problems of reading, and not for the purpose of selling them or putting them on shelves. 

• I will not bother you with distinctions which do not matter so far as your skill in reading is concerned.