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“The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“I fancy we are almost the only nation in the world who seem to think that composition comes by nature. The French attend to their own language, the Germans study theirs; but Englishmen do not seem to think it is worth their while.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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