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"I feed on good soup, not beautiful language."
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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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"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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"Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity."
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"I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn."
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"Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries."
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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
Folk
"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
Trees
"I feed on good soup, not beautiful language."
Language
"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."
Love
"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
Talk
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
Money
"No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living."
Life
"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
Compromise
"It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love."
Love
"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."
World
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