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Words are pegs to hang ideas on.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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  2. What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin.
  3. To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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  6. Now comes the mystery.
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  • communication
  • ideas
  • language
  • writing

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