"We are armed with language adequate to..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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“They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.”
“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”
“For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.”