The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.

Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Language is memory and metaphor.