Words realize nothing, vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe.
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Context: Hank tries to teach King Arthur, traveling in disguise, to act like a poor and suffering commoner.
Source: Chapter XXVIII
I was born modest; not all over, but in spots; and this was one of the spots.
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