\u201cThe more I think of it I find this conclusion more impressed upon me \u2014 that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see.\u201d<\/p>\n
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