"Speech happens to not be his language."

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"Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."

Elle Lothlorien, American Novelist

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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"But language is wine upon his lips."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"A cliche is everything you've ever heard of."

Janet Fitch, American Author

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"A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"All choice of words is slang. It marks a class. "There is correct English: that is not slang. "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn."

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"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."

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"Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."

"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

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

"But language is wine upon his lips."

"A cliche is everything you've ever heard of."

"A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge."

"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."

"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."

"All choice of words is slang. It marks a class. "There is correct English: that is not slang. "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."

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"A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn."

"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."

"Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's."

"One must choose in life between boredom and suffering."

"The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action."

"Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities."

"Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them."

"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals."

"A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it."

"Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak."