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"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut."
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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."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."
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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."
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"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."
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"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."
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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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"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."
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"The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart."
Heart
"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."
Truth
"Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions."
Mistake
"If you want to get along, go along."
Want
"Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time."
Time
"I like power and I like to use it."
Power
"When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'"
Majority
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut."
Language
"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
Commonsense
"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."
Leadership
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