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"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."
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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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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
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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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"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."
Marriage
"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves."
People
"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."
Truth
"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
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"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
Wisdom
"Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."
Confidence
"Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream."
Love
"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."
Nothing
"Few men have been admired of their familiars."
Man
"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
Marriage
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