“ Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
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“ Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Tears are the noble language of eye;And when true love of words is destitute,The eyes by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
- 562
“ The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ You taught me language; and my profit on'tIs, I know how to curse. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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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 squirting out ink. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 501
“ Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 68
“ The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
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“ Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
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“ Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
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“ A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ”
- Umberto Eco- Copy
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“ The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. ”
- T.S. Eliot- Copy
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“ Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. ”
- Penelope Lively- Copy
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“ Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity. ”
- Douglas Hyde- Copy
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“ Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
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“ Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you are declared to be the true "Father of your country. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
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“ Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
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