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“ The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable ”

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Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.

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Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

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