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Rhetoric, I shall urge, should be a study of misunderstanding and its remedies.

— I. A. Richards Philosophy of Rhetoric (1964)

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A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.

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An experience has to be formed, no doubt, before it is communicated, but it takes the form it does largely because it may have to be communicated.

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