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... thought , 3 that after one has decided what to say he then decides how to say it . Flaubert once retorted : " These fellows stick to an old com- parison : form is a cloak . No indeed ! form is the very flesh of thought . . . . ” * Thus ...
... thought , 3 that after one has decided what to say he then decides how to say it . Flaubert once retorted : " These fellows stick to an old com- parison : form is a cloak . No indeed ! form is the very flesh of thought . . . . ” * Thus ...
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... thought - not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate . Oliver Wendell Holmes If enduring peace can come to Asia , all mankind will benefit . But if peace fails there , nowhere else will our ...
... thought - not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate . Oliver Wendell Holmes If enduring peace can come to Asia , all mankind will benefit . But if peace fails there , nowhere else will our ...
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... thought . " Also see Lord Chesterfield's consideration of style as the " dress of thoughts . " 4 As quoted in Ullmann , op . cit . , p . 151. Also , Carlyle wrote in Sartor Resartus : " Language is called the garment of thought ...
... thought . " Also see Lord Chesterfield's consideration of style as the " dress of thoughts . " 4 As quoted in Ullmann , op . cit . , p . 151. Also , Carlyle wrote in Sartor Resartus : " Language is called the garment of thought ...
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