The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
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Galen24 quotes“The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.”
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He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul.
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GalenGalen The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images
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