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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 speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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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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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
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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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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles."
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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."
Manners
"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
Family
"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
"The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up."
Truth
"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."
People
"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
Nation
"Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now."
Now
"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."
Dying
"I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners."
Being
"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
Heaven
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