The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in w…

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ✨ Winston Churchill (1990). A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The birth of Britain
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ✨ Winston Churchill (1990). A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The birth of Britain

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