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My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Way, Tongue, Pens
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.889, Delphi Classics
My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.