Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half … - Virginia Woolf

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I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses. . . 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.

Virginia Woolf

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

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