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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 is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
I speak two languages, Body and English.
I speak two languages, Body and English.
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high
hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high
hands makes them obey its laws.
[Fr., La grammaire, qui sait regenter jusqu'aux rois,
Et les fait, la main haute, obeir a ses lois.]
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
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.
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
