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I speak two languages, Body and English.
I speak two languages, Body and English.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows
Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows
Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to
grammar.
Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to
grammar.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
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
