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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.Gustave Flaubert
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 25543. Printed attribution: Pascal. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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To a poet nothing can be useless.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 25034. Printed attribution: Johnson. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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Necessity is the mother of invention.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 1136. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_1136