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You taught me language, and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
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You taught me language, and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their read more
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
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,
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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.
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to
grammar.
Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to
grammar.
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
[Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
[Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]