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Language is by its very nature a communal thing that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

T. E. Hulme

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T. E. Hulme
Age: 34 †
Born: 1883
Born: September 16
Died: 1917
Died: September 28
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
Endon
Staffordshire
Thomas Ernest Hulme
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