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The word is the most imprecise of signs. only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.
-John Fowles
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John Fowles
The word is the most imprecise of signs. only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.
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