I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkwa…

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I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down. ✨ George Eliot (1871). Felix Holt, the Radical, p.51
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I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down. ✨ George Eliot (1871). Felix Holt, the Radical, p.51

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