The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus. (Cornelia Funke)

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus.

Cornelia Funke

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