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Friedrich Hebbel Quotes: If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one.
         

If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one.


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If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one.
         



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