When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
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That's not the same thing as saying that the latest account that he gives should be unmistakably taken as the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I wouldn't say he never wanted to be followed or be called a leader. (But) he probably wanted it less than it seemed at the time.Christopher Ricks
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