• The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  American Author 1906-2001
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1. intellectual
2. expressible
3. everything
4. completely
5. blandly
6. assumes

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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. by : Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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