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When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

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Christopher Ricks
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: September 18
Literary Critic
Bromley
Kent
Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks
Creates
Communication
Present
Within
Community
Language
Past
Doe
Courtesy

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