"Surely there is no language more majestic than that of Shakespeare, Milton, and the King James Bible, and if I am to have one language that I know as only a native can know it, I consider myself unbelievably fortunate that it is English."

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“Milton Ashe is not the type to marry a head of hair and a pair of eyes.”

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