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    And from the first declension of the flesh
    I learnt man’s tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
    Into the stony idiom of the brain....
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)