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"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."
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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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"I like slang words, straight to the point. I like words of wisdom, straight to the heart."
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"There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief."
Trust
"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."
Crime
"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
Art
"You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course."
Society
"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
Humor
"Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost."
Money
"What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?"
Man
"Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now."
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"I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep."
Humor
"Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom."
God
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