"Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood."
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"They rightly adminish us that Christ taught that our speech should be Yea, Yea, and Nay, Nayl yet they do not seem to me to understand it clearly, or if they do understand it to obeu it. For though in…"
"I always think of writing as a physical thing. I'm not trying to generalize, it just happens to be that way with me."
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