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all languages must needs express radical
It is well to recall that all languages must needs express radical concepts (group I) and relational ideas (group IV).
— from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

a local misfortune not easily remedied
Stored water is almost as valuable as earth in a cycle of deficient rainfall, and the loss of any of our fountains and springs is a local misfortune not easily remedied.
— from The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish

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