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By Jack Joseph Smith
Twice is the
Better part
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A tiny aphoristic page that treats repetition or second chance as the wiser share.
Its strength is its incompleteness. The phrase feels like a proverb broken down to essentials, leaving the reader to supply whether 'twice' means love, error, memory, or survival.
'Twice is the / Better part' — four words that sound like the closing of a proverb whose opening the page declines to supply. Left bare, it reads as a small defense of repetition, second chances, or revision itself.