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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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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
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"Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence."
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"There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate."
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"The one overall structure in my plays is language."
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"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."
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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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"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language."
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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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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
Language
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Wisdom
"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
Wisdom
"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."
Wisdom
"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
Life
"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?"
Society
"One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning."
Learning
"I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose."
Friendship
"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
Humor
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Happiness
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