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"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."

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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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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."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The wonder of words."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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..."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"But language is wine upon his lips."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Language, Word, Structure, Science

"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

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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!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."

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"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."

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"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."

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"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."

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"Progress, this great heresy of decay."

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"Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine."

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"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."

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"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."

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"Inspiration comes of working every day."

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"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."

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