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Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?
Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?
Approximate author period: c. 1835 AD · industrial
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- Charlotte Brontë
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- Approximate author period: c. 1835 AD · industrial
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