"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
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