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William Hazlitt

"A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it."

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"A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it."

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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."

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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"

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Donna Grant

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

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Donna Grant

"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."

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Donna Grant

"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."

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Donna Grant

"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."

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Donna Grant

"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)"

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"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."
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"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased."
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"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
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