"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut."

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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

John Green, American Author

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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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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."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said."

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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."

"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."

"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."

"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."

"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."

"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

"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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"You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said."

"Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions."

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"I like power and I like to use it."

"If you want to get along, go along."

"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."

"When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'"

"Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time."

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."

"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut."