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"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity."
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence."
"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."
"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather."
"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."
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