In language learning, the principal parts of a verb are those forms that a student must memorize in order to be able to conjugate the verb through all its forms.
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“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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