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"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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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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"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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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
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"In its proper role, a number counts the missing words."
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"Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age."
Age
"I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home."
Home
"Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him."
Money
"A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."
Being
"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."
Language
"Trouble shared is trouble halved."
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"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."
Possibility
"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless."
Passion
"A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own."
Passion
"She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away."
Knowledge
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