You must sit down to speak this language, It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it. For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss

Bill Holm
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  1. Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown.
  2. You must sit down to speak this language, It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it. For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss
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