Quote by Winston Churchill
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes,

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. – Winston Churchill

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