"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

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"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."

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