Summary Conviction

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“Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.”
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“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
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