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'I plan to give some examples of with in poetry, and to intersperse them with observations that may well display the literary symptom that George Bernard Shaw is supposed to have remarked...'
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In the Cratylus, talking part jokingly to Hermogenes, Socrates said: 'I should imagine that the name Hermes has to do with speech, and signifies that he is the interpreter, or messenger, or thief, or liar, or bargainer; all that sort of thing has a great deal to do with language.
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