If you don't set your writing - and teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle. (M. H. Abrams)

If you don't set your writing - and teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

M. H. Abrams

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