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  • I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

    Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.151