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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Annie Dillard |

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Ralph Waldo Emerson |