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“If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“This is an approach to that universal language which men have sought in vain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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