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“I make progress by writing” by Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430)

February 28, 2009
Augustine, Christian Theology, Quotable Quotes, Writing

“I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress– by writing.”

–Aurelius Augustine, as quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1967/2000), 354.

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