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tumble77
(a
commonplace book
belonging to
Jeevs Sinclair
)
Jul 09
It is the powerful language of resistance; it is the dialect of common sense. It is the speech of the proud, and of all who aspire, and it has its basis broad and low, close to the ground.
—
Walt Whitman, quoted by Robert McCrum of the Observer in the Economist’s debate on the English Language