“The first obvious quality of the voice is that it fades away the moment it is produced”
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“The first obvious quality of the voice is that it fades away the moment it is produced”
“A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, surely, quoth he, thou art all voice and nothing else.”