Perhaps one of the reasons why revolutions have beenso few among the English-speaking peoples is because English is so matter-offact, so uninflammatory that the words needed to suspend the reason of rabblesare entirely lacking. The Romance languages, on the other hand, have not thisdisability, and the Slavonic languages seem to have been invented for the purposeof expressing or arousing the most intimate emotions without embarrassingeither oneself or ones hearers.
-Ronald Seth
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