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"Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind." – Homer, The Odyssey, Book 15, line 433.
"A moral, sensible, and well-bred man" Will not affront me, and no other can. – Cowper, "Conversation" (1782), line 193.
"It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on." – Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dispossessed" (1974), Ch. 3