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"A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable."
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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

"Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling."

"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?"

"We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue."

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."

"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."
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"The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood."

"Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines."

"The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route."

"Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place."

"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
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