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The Creator has gifted the whole universe with language, but few are the hearts that can interpret it. Happy those to whom it is no foreign tongue, acquired imperfectly with care and pain, but rather a native language, learned unconsciously from the lips of the great mother.

The Creator has gifted the whole universe with language, but few are the hearts that can interpret it. Happy those to whom it is no foreign tongue, acquired imperfectly with care and pain, but rather a native language, learned unconsciously from the lips of the great mother.

Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial

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Edward Bulwer Lytton
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Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)

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