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“Never mind if you fall far short of the thing you want to do,encourage your effort. If no one else will say it to you, say it to yourself. Not so bad. It will make the next effort easier and better.”
—Josephine Demott Robinson (18651948)
“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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