![I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
[Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-will-perform-the-function-of-a-whetstone-which-is-about-to-restore-sharpness-t.jpg)
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