History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
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