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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
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By such innovations are languages enriched: when the words are adopted by the multitude and naturalized by custom.
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‘Children, don”t speak so coarsely,’ said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters” speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.
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Children, don’t speak so coarsely, said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters’ speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.
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Conversation is the slowest form of human communication. ~Author Unknown
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Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
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Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame’s eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.- Edmund Spenser
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English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. ~Author Unknown
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education sometimes it’s sheer luck,like getting across the street.- E. B. White
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Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.
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Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born – the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people’s experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language
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Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.
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Fie, fie upon her! There’s language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
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For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
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For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put
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