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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to
my horse--German.
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to
my horse--German.
Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to
grammar.
Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to
grammar.
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
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.
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
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
