| The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| Tears are the noble language of the eye. -- Robert Herrick |
| Author:
Herrick, RobertEra:
1591 |
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| Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. -- T. S. Eliot |
| Author:
Eliot, T. S.Era:
1888 |
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| Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". -- Dorothy Parker |
| Author:
Parker, DorothyEra:
1893 |
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