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[Language] has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

Source: On the Study of Words, Lecture 1, 1858.
-- Richard C Trench, (Sep 5 1807-1886), English archbishop, philogist, poet; He was a noted philologist who popularized the study of language: Study of Words.

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