Interesting topic- I've often wondered what English truly-does sound like, as I don't think we can really hear it as non-speakers can, where it's divorced from meaning- similar to the way it's hard for people to immediately-identify font colors if the words printed are colors, themselves.
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"Such is the Frailty
of the human Heart, that very few Men, who have no Property, have any Judgment of their own.
They talk and vote as they are directed by Some Man of Property, who has attached their Minds
to his Interest."