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A Communal Thing

Apr 26th, 2004 • Posted in: Quote from the Ethics File

“Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise — that which is common to you, me, and everybody.”

– Thomas Earnest Hulme (English critic, poet, and philosopher, 1883-1917)

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