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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."
"Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals."
"We float in language like icebergs " four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecting into the open air of immediate, non-linguistic experience."
"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..."
"The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue."
Explore more quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it."
"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost."
"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."
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