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It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.
Thomas Sprat
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Roland Barthes
Thomas Sprat
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Born:
1635
Died:
May 20, 1713
(aged 78)
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Thomas Sprat, was an English churchman, Bishop of Rochester from 1684.
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