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Louis B. Saloman

Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

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It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

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Turkish Proverb

If you can teach me a new word I’ll walk all the way to China to get it.

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Friedrich Wasiman

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

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Edward Arlington Robinson

A word has its use Or like a man it will soon have a grave.

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Bertrand Russell

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.

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Language most shows a man speak that I may see thee.

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La Rochefoucauld

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.

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Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Even if language is a living evolving organism we don’t have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.

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Our language one of our most precious natural resources deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands streams and whooping cranes.

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His words were softer than oil yet they were drawn swords.

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Language is an inventory of human experience.

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