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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Ezra Pound
History, Literature, Checks
ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 1
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.