Suggestive Function

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“Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)