Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot — Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot — Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot — Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot — Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot — Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
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Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.

— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
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