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"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
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"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
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"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
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"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
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"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."
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"What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?"
Relationship
"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
Language
"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden."
Gardening
"It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also."
Heaven
"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."
Soul
"Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life."
Life
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."
Friendship
"They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity."
Life
"To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible."
Success
"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."
Friendship
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