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"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
-Mark Twain
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"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
-Abraham Lincoln
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."
-George Orwell
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
-George Orwell
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"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."
-Sir Winston Churchill
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"Words are the physicians of the mind diseased."
-Aeschylus
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"No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"I understand a fury in your words, but not the words."
-William Shakespeare
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
-William Shakespeare
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"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
-William Shakespeare
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"Use soft words and hard arguments."
-English Proverb
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"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."
-Samuel Johnson
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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
-William Butler Yeats
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"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history."
-Russell Hoban
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"Words have a longer life than deeds."
-Pindar
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"Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation."
-Angela Carter
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"If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one."
-Hebbel
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"If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power."
-Lionel Jospin
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"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things."
-Herman Melville
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"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
-Lewis Thomas
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"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."
-Cato the Elder
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"A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation."
-Thomas Osborne Davis
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"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
-Thomas Hardy
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"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand."
-Sir Edward Appleton
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"Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life."
-Charles Scribner, Jr.
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