"It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you."

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

— Mark Twain