"Then take him to develop, if you can And hew the block off, and get out the man."
— Education

January 1, 1970

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Alexander Pope, Dunciad, IV. 269. A notion of Aristotle's that there was originally in every block of marble, a statue, which would appear on the removal of the superfluous parts.