There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. (Washington Irving)

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

Washington Irving

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