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a is also for agatha, apple, alice, apache, again, augment, antelope, awesome, australia, antarctica, astronomy, alligator, association, antipathy, anger, addled, aggregation, assonance, alimentary, antiquated, annoyed, allaphone, aphrodisiac, alumni, almighty, afraid, afford, afro, animosity, allegiance, android, androgeny, arithmetic, amorous, adored, aproached, allibrandi, ameoba, accustom, antedote, anticipate, appear, aubergine, accidental, affluent, agog, adhere, accordian, ad infinitum

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things, even as they are little things, not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest pleasures.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Roads

i find a very useful when referring to the nonspecific, but when you have a particular to mention, there's nothing like the.

a is also for agatha, apple, alice, apache, again, augment, antelope, awesome, australia, antarctica, astronomy, alligator, association, antipathy, anger, addled, aggregation, assonance, alimentary, antiquated, annoyed, allaphone, aphrodisiac, alumni, almighty, afraid, afford, afro, animosity, allegiance, android, androgeny, arithmetic, amorous, adored, aproached, allibrandi, ameoba, accustom, antedote, anticipate, appear, aubergine, accidental, affluent, agog, adhere, accordian, ad infinitum

A ship captain is a good man to marry if it is a marriage of love, for absences are a good influence in love, and keep it bright and delicate; but he is just the worst man if the feeling is more pedestrian, as habit is too frequently torn open and the solder has never time to set.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque

A is for apple, and, well of course, for »and.«

In my school, Aardvark would have committed suicide, having to sit in the very front desk in every class.