Language is a poor thing. You fill your lungs with wind and shake a little slit in your throat, and make mouths, and that shakes the air; and the air shakes a pair of little drums in my heada very complicated arrangement, with lots of bones behindand my brain seizes your meaning in the rough. What a roundabout way, and what a waste of time.

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George du Maurier was a 19th-century British british cartoonist and novelist. George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a French-British cartoonist, illustrator, and novelist. He was known for his work in Punch and his 1894 Gothic novel Trilby, featuring the character Svengali. Read more on Wikipedia →

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