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"All choice of words is slang. It marks a class. "There is correct English: that is not slang. "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."
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"Although profanity is part of our language that we speak everyday, it can simultaneity be used as a weapon to demoralize other people if it is offensive within its meaning."
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"Language is memory and metaphor."
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"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."
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"Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects."
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"All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth."
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"Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information."
Politics
"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."
Humor
"You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing."
Faith
"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."
Power
"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."
Reality
"The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings."
Time
"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."
Knowledge
"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
Travel
"There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself."
Emotion
"And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it."
Reflection
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