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"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."
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"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas."
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"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
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