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Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
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.]
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.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
Change your language and you change your thoughts.
Change your language and you change your thoughts.
Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a
common language.
Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a
common language.
