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QUOTATION:Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
ATTRIBUTION:Charlotte Brontė (1816–55), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 21 (1847).

“Deglutition” means the action of swallowing [OED]...
 
 
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