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John Erskine: The written and the spoken

English: John Erskine (1721-1803)
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“The great men in literature have usually tried to bring the written word into harmony with the spoken, instead of encouraging an exclusive language to write in.”

—John Erskine, novelist, poet, and essayist (1879-1951).


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