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"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b..." — Ezra Pound

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound
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