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"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity."
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"Children always turn to the light."
Children
"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."
Poetry
"When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths."
Frogs
"No one but a fool is always right."
Fool
"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity."
Language
"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
Civilization
"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."
Earth
"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."
Truth
"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."
People
"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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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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"Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?"
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"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
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"Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people's mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments."
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"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."
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"Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!"
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"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."
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"And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then."
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"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."
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