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The adventure of English (2003)
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English took time to emerge as the common tongue. There had been luck, but also cunning and the beginnings of what was to become English's most subtle and ruthless characteristic of all: its capacity to absorb others.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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October 6, 1939
(age 85)
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