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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Die englische Sprache hat eine täuschende Leichtigkeit; so haben einige kleine Kleider; aber beides ist nicht das, was man in einer halben Stunde mit einer Maschine erreichen kann.

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