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William Melmoth

"Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction."

Source : William Melmoth (1805). “Fitzosborne's Letters on several subjects ... Eleventh edition, with the Dialogue on Oratory [translated from Tacitus]: to which is prefixed a life of the author”, p.191

William Melmoth

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“People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If theres patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.”
“When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.”
“I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.”
“Very few people have no opinions about cats.”
“I think I've chosen the right path.”

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“You know you're old when your walker has an airbag.”
“It occured to me that we will never be young again.”
“In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.”

Source : Louise Bernikow (1981). “Among women”, HarperCollins

"Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction."

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