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“Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets”

Eddy Peters quotes

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“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes (American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894)

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“Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery”

Mark Amidon quotes

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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 quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950)

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“I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out”

Katherine Dunn quotes

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“If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things”

Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work”

Carl Sandburg quotes (American Historian, Poet and Novelist, 1878-1967)

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“Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.”

Gustave Flaubert quotes (French Novelist regarded as the prime mover of the realist school of French literature and best known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary. 1821-1880)

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“Language is the dress of thought.”

Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about, around, and underneath" man, except man himself.”

Lord Byron quotes (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)

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