Quintin Ellison

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That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them, is a fact which is perpetually demonstrated in daily life.
In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)
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