The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.