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There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
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.
Change your language and you change your thoughts.
Change your language and you change your thoughts.
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time,
place, and company.
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time,
place, and company.
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain read more
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?
The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart
as much as in the language.
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The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart
as much as in the language.
[Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et
dans le coeur comme dans le langage.]
I speak two languages, Body and English.
I speak two languages, Body and English.