• We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

    George Eliot: We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
    George Eliot (2016). “The Lifted Veil: Top Novelist Focus”, p.28, 谷月社