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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.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.

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.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

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