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"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
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"There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate."
"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."
"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..."
"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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"They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity."
"Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things."
"Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain."
"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."
"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
"It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also."
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