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"BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm."
Man
"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
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"Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white."
Art
"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."
Crime
"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."
Knowledge
"A man is known by the company he organizes."
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"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."
History
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
Art
"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
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"Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."
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"Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?"
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"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
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"Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people's mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments."
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"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."
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"Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!"
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"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."
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"And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then."
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"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."
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