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"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
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"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."
"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."
"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."
"I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue."
"English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing."
"The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles."
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"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
"A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated."
"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."
"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."
"Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk."
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