It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled wit…

J. R. R. Tolkien
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It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.
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