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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.
Language is wine upon the lips.
Language is wine upon the lips.
Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a
common language.
Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a
common language.
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy read more
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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
Change your language and you change your thoughts.
Change your language and you change your thoughts.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
Language is fossil poetry.
Language is fossil poetry.
