Do you want to hear what's in my head? Well, neither do I.

17th May 2010

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Cicero, the prince of Roman orators says of someone that “He never uttered a word which he would wish to recall.” High praise indeed! - but more applicable to a complete ass than to a genuinely wise man…. If God permit me, I shall gather together and point out, in a work specially devoted to this purpose, all the things which justly displease me in my books: then men will see that I am far from being a biased judge in my own case…. For I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress - by writing.
— Augustine, Epistle 143.2-3

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