• One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

  Alfred de Vigny
  French poet and writer 1797-1863
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1. mathematically
2. composition
3. separated
4. original
5. reaches
6. author

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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact. by : Alfred de Vigny

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