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Language is the pedigree of nations.
Language
Johnson

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Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Language
Max Muller

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

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

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Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Language
Benjamin Lee Whorf

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Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
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Andrea Dworkin

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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Language
Lily Tomlin

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Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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George Eliot

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No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
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Aubrey Beardsley

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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Numbers constitute the only universal language.
Language
Nathanael West

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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Language
Marianne Moore

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Poetry is the language of feeling.
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W. Winter

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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
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Anthony Burgess

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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George Bernard Shaw

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The eyes have one language everywhere.
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George Herbert

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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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George Eliot

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The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
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Henri Delacroix

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The language of truth is simple.
Language
Euripides

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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
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Marcellinus Ammianus

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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
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John Ruskin

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The word of man is the most durable of all material.
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Arthur Schopenhauer

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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William Butler Yeats

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Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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To have another language is to possess a second soul.
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Charlemagne

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