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“To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lostthat is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilizationis to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“Lift not thy spear against the Muses bower:
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower
Went to the ground; and the repeated air
Of sad Electras poet had the power
To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.”
—John Milton (16081674)
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