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Evelyn Beatrice Hall, (1868 - 19??), who wrote under the pseudonym S.G. Tallentyre, was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire with the title The Friends of Voltaire, which she completed in 1906. Hall wrote the phrase: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," (which is often misattributed to Voltaire), as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs in her biography on him.Hall's quote is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech.Sorry to Pee on your parade Exy ,but S.G Tallentyre was in fact a psuedenym for a woman writer called Evelyn Beatrice Hall and she attributed it to Voltair as to say he should have said it. I, of course, know all this carp and didn't just Google it , honest. Signing off now before he comes back at me with something else.
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