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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
You taught me language, and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
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You taught me language, and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!
And who in time knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores
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And who in time knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores
This gain of our best glory shall be sent,
T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident
May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
I speak two languages, Body and English.
I speak two languages, Body and English.
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.
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
