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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
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"The wonder of words."
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"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
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Explore more quotes by Ben Jonson
"A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house."
Woman
"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom."
Art
"He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."
Fool
"O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!"
Time
"To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."
Fool
"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee."
Language
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."
Friendship
"Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."
Honor
"He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity."
Strength
"Talking is the disease of age."
Age
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