No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the g…

Charles Caleb Colton
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.235
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