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Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

To say ‘we’ and mean ‘I’ is one of the most recondite insults.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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