A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why…

Thomas Carlyle
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. ✨ Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 November (1843)
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. ✨ Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 November (1843)

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