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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."
"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."
"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."
"It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word."
"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."
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"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."
"They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity."
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