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Songs may exist unsung, but voices exist only when they sound.

Songs may exist unsung, but voices exist only when they sound.
Walter Savage Landor ↗

Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial

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Walter Savage Landor
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Approximate author period: c. 1819 AD · industrial
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Recorded source
Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)

Printed citation: Landor. · page_399

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