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Ordinary language is all right.
One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.
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7 Jan '13 10:56:14 AM
Make doubts hinge on the adjective 'true'.
7 Jan '13 10:55:05 AM
Impugn concealment; or wonder how we would ever get by without it.
7 Jan '13 10:52:26 AM
Point out what's not hidden.
7 Jan '13 10:49:55 AM
Conspire with the reader; let him count himself in.
7 Jan '13 10:48:32 AM
Enlarge groups no one wants admission to.
7 Jan '13 10:46:30 AM
Sketch a type with assurance.
7 Jan '13 10:43:28 AM
Use the first-person plural like a defector.
7 Jan '13 10:41:45 AM
Deflect the blame for invidious comparisons onto the words used to make them.
7 Jan '13 10:38:46 AM
Even 'sometimes' may be often enough, for the aphorist.