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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."
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"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."
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"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."
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"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)"
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
People

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
Life

"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
Life

"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
Friendship

"Disease generally begins that equality which death completes."
Death

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
Hope

"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
Art

"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty."
Compassion

"Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears."
Strength
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