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Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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I cannot explain it but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
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