Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge, but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge, but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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