What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
Gilbert Highet
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
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