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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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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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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
Friendship
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Politics
"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."
Priority
"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
Government
"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
Love
"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
Lie
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Being
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
Habit
"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."
Man
"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
Friendship
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