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We must write, therefore, as carefully and as much as we can, for as the ground, by being dug to a great depth, becomes more fitted for fructifying and nourishing seeds, so improvement of the mind, acquired from more than mere superficial cultivation, pours forth the fruits of study in richer abundance and retains them with greater fidelity.
Plant metaphor yet again
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they yet never fully attain to his force or fertility of language
Those we imitate act as the fertile soil we grow from
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fertilizing and grateful aliment
Back to the plant metaphor
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