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Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool.
Author: Martin H. Fischer
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I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who ‘ligate’ arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Author: Quentin Crisp
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If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.
Author: Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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Sometimes it’s just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams – assuming you don’t drown in the metaphor.
Author: Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Author: Samuel Butler
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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it.
Author: Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 4
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Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise – that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
Author: Thomas Earnest Hulme, Speculations, 1923
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
Author: William James
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A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en grec est d’une merveilleuse efficace a la tete d’un livre.]
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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