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Lesson
Ideas furnished by the imagination are no less your own than are those furnished by experience, and the same freedom in the choice of language prevails.
They are, however, not apt to be so clear and definite.
At the time of their occurrence they do not make so deep and vital an impression upon you.
If not recorded as they occur, they can seldom be recalled in the original form.
Even though you attempt to write them down as you think them, you can and do change and modify them as you go along.
This lack of clearness and permanent form, while it seems to give greater freedom, carries with it disadvantages.
In the first place the ideas are less likely to be worth recording, and in the second place it is more difficult to give them a unity and directness of statement that will hold the attention and interest of the reader until the chief point is reached.
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