"Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them."
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Joseph Joubert, in The Bloomsbury Review, Volume 5, Parts 3-6, p. 125.
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Joseph Joubert
1754 – 1824
französischer Moralist und Essayist
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