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Language is the machine of the poet.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.
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A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.
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