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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is read more
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.
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.
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it read more
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.
