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Isidore of Seville Quotes: Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.
         

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.


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This page presents the quote "Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.". Author of this quote is Isidore of Seville. This quote is about voice, eye, absent, speak, letters, power, ears, symbols,.