It is one of the worst things of sentiment, that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that which is spoken. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is one of the worst things of sentiment, that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that which is spoken.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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