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“A squirrel leaping from bough to bough, and making the wood but one wide tree for his pleasure, fills the eye not less than a lion,is beautiful, self-sufficing, and stands then and there for nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
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