Power Dissipation

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“He utters substantial English thoughts in plainest English dialects.... Indeed, for fluency and skill in the use of the English tongue, he is a master unrivaled. His felicity and power of expression surpass even his special merits as historian and critic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)