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Letitia Landon

"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious."

Letitia Landon, British Poet
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"Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious."

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