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"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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"It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter."
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"The world is built with words."
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"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean."
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"Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy."
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"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
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"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
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"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
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"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
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"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."
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"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
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"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."
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"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
Education
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
Society
"I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will."
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