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"I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will."
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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."
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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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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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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
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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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"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean."
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"One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least."
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"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
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"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
Being
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
Culture
"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery."
Values
"A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself."
Self
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
Society
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
Society
"You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his."
Loss
"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
Love
"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
Right
"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
Joy
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