"Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."

Emotion, Patience, Commonplace, Heart

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"Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."

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