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Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
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Claiborne investigates and reports on expressions like sow one's wild oats, about which he tells us little or nothing: the modern Latinate designation Avena fatua came too many centuries after the original expression to have any relevance to it, so why bring up the information that fatua is Latin for ' foolish ': it was also Latin for ' wild, ' which might be more to the point.
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Claiborne reports on expressions like sow one's wild oats, and tells us little or nothing: the modern Latinate designation Avena fatua came too many centuries after the original expression to have any relevance to it, so why bring up the information?

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My claim is that Lincoln's address expresses the same idea that was then current in Europe. Each people of common history and language constitutes a nation, and the natural form for the nation's survival was in a state structure.
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Lincoln's address and Europeas where the same. Common history and language constitutes a nation, and the natural form for the nation's survival was a state structure.

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"I am addressing this to you since I don't have the address of the journal of original publication ( The Independent ), and hope that word may eventually drift back to England."
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I am sending this to you as you do not have the address for the original publication and hope (The Independent) word gets to England.