When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone — Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
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When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.

— Charlotte Lamb, Night Music
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