"Words, however, are things: and the man who accords To his language the license to outrage his soul Is controll'd by the words he disdains to control."

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Novelists from EnglandPoets from EnglandAcademics from the United KingdomViceroys of IndiaBritish Ambassadors to France
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Part i, canto ii, section vi.

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Part i, canto ii, section vi.