"War and Love are strange compeers. War sheds blood, and Love sheds tears; War has swords, and Love has darts; War breaks heads, and Love breaks hearts."
"Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears."
"The English language, by reserving the distinction of gender for living beings that have sex, gives especial scope for personification. The highest form of personification should be used seldom, and only when justified by the presence of strong feeling."--Bain.
"Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."--Cowper.
PLEAD. The imperfect tense and the perfect participle of the verb _to plead_ are both _pleaded_ and not _plead_. "He _pleaded_ not guilty." "You should have _pleaded_ your cause with more fervor."
PLENTY. In Worcester's Dictionary we find the following note: "_Plenty_ is much used colloquially as an adjective, in the sense of _plentiful_, both in this country and in England; and this use is supported by respectable authorities, though it is condemned by various critics. Johnson says: 'It is used barbarously, I think, for _plentiful_'; and Dr. Campbell, in his 'Philosophy of Rhetoric,' says: '_Plenty_ for _plentiful_ appears to me so gross a vulgarism that I should not have thought it worthy of a place here if I had not sometimes found it in works of considerable merit.'" We should say, then, that money is _plentiful_, and not that it is _plenty_.
PLEONASM. Redundancy or pleonasm is the use of more words than are necessary to express the thought clearly. "They returned _back again_ to the _same_ city _from_ whence they came _forth_": the five words in italics are _redundant_ or _pleonastic_. "The different departments of science and of art _mutually_ reflect light _on each other_": either of the expressions in italics embodies the whole idea. "The _universal_ opinion of _all_ men" is a pleonastic expression often heard. "I wrote you _a letter_ yesterday": here _a letter_ is redundant.
Redundancy is _sometimes_ permissible for the surer conveyance of meaning, for emphasis, and in the language of poetic embellishment.