"Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy."

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"Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy."

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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

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"He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands."

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