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"When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it."
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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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"Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer."
God
"The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools."
Bible
"Personal liberty is not personal license."
Liberty
"Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records."
Church
"If you don't do your part, don't blame God."
God
"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing."
Art
"Religion needs a baptism of horse sense."
Religion
"I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon."
God
"The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election."
Thought
"After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world."
Politics
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